photograph by Jessica Stammen

Photo captured while walking Megunticook Lake at the beginning of the snowpocalypse, reflecting with each soft careful step on the words of Maine’s poet laureate, Wesley McNair.

“Every artist’s awareness comes out of a general sense of imperfection and the condition of brokenness. The world is a broken place, and we are all broken in it. Through our art, we find ways to mend it. For me, the mending is done with words — the words I choose.”