Sadly, it seems there’ll be no Leather this week. Once again, there’s just too much to be done, and by the time I get home I’m way too tired to consider writing. And so it’ll be a poetic week instead.
This is another poem written as a response to a painting from an Art History class I took back in ‘92. This time, the subject is Albrecht Altdorfer’s The Battle of Alexander at Issus, which is kind of an amazing painting. If you have follow the link, be sure to look at the higher resolution version. It’s gorgeous and stunningly detailed.
Which informed the poem, really. And the kind of drive that has an artist go way beyond what anyone might expect of him.
Which, you know, can be said of writers too now and again.
