“Icy Spheres” © Jury S. Judge

 

This Refrigerated Life

This refrigerated life approaches a safe life by defining boundaries within boundaries within expectations within expectations denied. It seems confusing but it is probably needed somehow or we would not still be laying next to each other on a boat softly rolling at the start of a voyage.

Refrigerated life
is a still life
held
in a frame
at a museum
where passions can be looked at
and even felt
at a safe distance
with a knowledge that the storm will pass
and the fireplace is snugly still at home,
and there was no real lasting anguish
to create anything hanging
on a cross
of a wall
in a perfectly temperatured atmosphere
under
or
over
specifically focussed lighting

 

H.E. Ross is a Black San Francisco sailor who writes sailing prose and poetry though The Torture of Dulling only touches of the sea at the last words. It, of course does come from a sailor who lives as a sailor.

Jury S. Judge is an internationally published artist, writer, poet, and cartoonist. Her “Astronomy Comedy” cartoons were published in Lowell Observatory’s publication, The Lowell Observer. She was interviewed on the television news program, “NAZ Today” for her work as a cartoonist. Her artwork has been widely featured in over one hundred and fifty magazines, including the covers of, Blue Mesa Review, Elements Review, Glass Mountain, and Levitate. She has also been interviewed by Streetlight Magazine and The Antonym. The City of Flagstaff selected her art for a public art opportunity where her art was displayed on traffic signal cabinet boxes located at two different intersections. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. In addition to art and photography, her passions include hiking and traveling to exciting, new destinations.