National Gallery Stream/Story Poem by mary dakin https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec Use Painting en-us 2018-02-07 11:29:52 UTC 2023-06-18 04:49:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Natalie Arnold https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230887126 2018-02-13 01:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230887126 Nicholas Brasacchio https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230891835 2018-02-13 02:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230891835 Kevin Reynolds https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230893645 2018-02-13 02:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/230893645 Nicole Holdgrafer https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231163766 2018-02-13 17:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231163766 Peyton Clark https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231172729 “A Girl with a Watering Can”]]> 2018-02-13 17:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231172729 Brigette Linden https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231256330 2018-02-13 19:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231256330 Olivia Cerretani https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231285617 2018-02-13 20:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231285617 Zach DeRose https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231315215 2018-02-13 22:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231315215 Zachary DeRose https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231316411 2018-02-13 22:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231316411 Michael Whittaker https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231319130 2018-02-13 22:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231319130 Gabriela DePalma https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231338956 2018-02-14 00:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231338956 Alyssa Collins https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231345039 The non-stop rocking 
This bloody boat is going to make me sick. 
Is it really the boat though? 
Or is it the twisted look on his face? 
The one that leaves me lying awake 
At night, tossing and turning like this 
Ship amidst the unruly tides? 
I kept reaching for more chances 
To keep him here: first, marriage, 
Then the bundle of life squirming out 
Of my grasp in my lap. 
Seeing now that a baby would never 
Keep him from her, her lustful stare 
Pulling him back in repeatedly 
Like the tides going in and out, 
In and out. 
I look for something in his 
Eyes now, anything to help me navigate 
Those ocean-blue orbs and what he may be 
Thinking. 

Nothing. 

Hunched over the oars, muscles contracting 
To bend the surrounding water to his will. 
Back and forth, back and forth. 
I see the sweat dripping from his brow, 
Trying to distract himself from what is sitting 
Right in front of him. 
A wife, and our collaborated life 
Fussing and reaching for his own rippling reflection. The distance between us exponentially 
Grew the day he was born. 
Feeling like another chore we switched 
Back and forth, back and forth 
From tending to. 
We vowed only death could bring us apart. 
But ironically a life has seemed to do that. 
Until death do us part, 
Until death do us part... 
No one said whose death it had to be. 
Maybe the ending of this life could 
Promise a new one. 
For us. 
To be happy, to come back to each other. 
Finally having the freedom he looks for 
In her with me again. 
Looking to the water I see an oasis 
Staring back at me, mirroring this dream, 
Drawing me in with its hope. 
It could be so simple. 
The tides just picked up and I lost my grip 
On him.
An accident. 
He reached for something he saw in the water 
And plunged into the sea. 
A simple mistake. 
I would have dove in after him, 
But I am unable to swim. 
As his writhing body sinks to the depths 
Of the sea my heart rises to the top with new hope. 
A sacrifice. 
A life for a life. 
Another chance I strain to grasp for.

]]> 2018-02-14 01:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231345039 Miles Duca https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231349098 2018-02-14 01:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231349098 Gracie Wall https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231351607 2018-02-14 02:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231351607 Andy G https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231357971 2018-02-14 03:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231357971 Nicole Sharma nicole_sharma https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231358320 2018-02-14 03:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231358320 Jessica Gedra https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362118 2018-02-14 03:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362118 Payton Thomas https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362246 2018-02-14 03:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362246 Thomas Rizzo https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362984 2018-02-14 03:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231362984 Darren Vasco https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231364832 2018-02-14 03:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231364832 Bitsy Bretton https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231367675 2018-02-14 04:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231367675 Sara Campos https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231367833 2018-02-14 04:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231367833 Toby Tao https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231371404 2018-02-14 04:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231371404 Addison Nugent https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231371910 2018-02-14 05:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231371910 Lynzi Baxter https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231372671 2018-02-14 05:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231372671 Courtney Maw https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231579708 2018-02-14 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231579708 Alyssa Collins https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231590785 2018-02-14 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231590785 Caroline Pesch https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231594465 2018-02-14 17:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231594465 Tong Huang tong_huang https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231595285 2018-02-14 17:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231595285 John Gunter https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231632185 2018-02-14 18:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231632185 Shayla Merrigan https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231644335 2018-02-14 18:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231644335 Shayla Merrigan https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231675183 2018-02-14 19:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231675183 Alivia Baxmann https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231789111 2018-02-15 05:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231789111 Jacob Molitor https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231802812 2018-02-15 07:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231802812 ZhiJia.Xia xia_zhijia https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231930567 2018-02-15 14:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/231930567 Antonela Caro https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/232440159 2018-02-16 17:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/232440159 Jordan Breadmore https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/233767283 2018-02-21 14:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_dakin/hfxklinyqdec/wish/233767283