American poet, Lynda McKinney Lambert shares her poem about spending a fall day in a red canoe on the Allegheny River is western Pennsylvania. This poem is featured in Vita Brevis 3 Anthology – Nothing Divine Dies. Edited by Brian Geiger.
This poem is one of Lambert’s articles, “From the Professor’s Journal,” on her blog at: Lynda Lambert dot com.
American Poet, Lynda McKinney Lambert shares a poem and BACKSTORY.
Professor Lambert shares the history of a poem from the initial jotting in her journal, Lynda describes in detail the landscape as she stood in the middle of it, observing the details of an afternoon in August. Lynda’s background in education is evident in the way she describes the making of the poem. She is an award-winning poet and visual artist whose work appears internationally in literary journals, books. anthologies, and art exoproteomes. Her paintings and mixed-media art works have appeared in nearly 500 exhibitions in gallery and museum shows.
Rosella and I departed on the morning of June 1, 1985. This was the morning after the historical tornadoes. As we drove the I-80 corridor across the state, we saw one nightmare scene of destruction after another. Our minds were set on the trip ahead of us, and we drove through entire areas where everything in sight looked like it had been bombed. Buildings were smashed. Trees were broken off like toothpicks
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