Sky and Lake, December

(Sky and Lake, December- Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
watercolor on paper, 2009)

-----------------------------------------------

To all who have looked at, read, and listened to the works here at BETWEEN WATERS this past year, I give my sincere thanks.

I will be back in 2010 with more journeys and meditations inspired by Lake Champlain and the power of place.

-kmb

November Poem and Paintings

( Lake Champlain, Autumn Light;

Lake, Island, Clouds

Paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown,

watercolor on paper, 2009)

----------------------------

Barge Canal, November

Having found
Love in the loomings
Of blue, layered
Mountains

Having tasted
Freshness and renewal
In the ecstatic gray waters of
Now, November

I stand amazed
Where silver
Sunlight finds
Wavetops, then seeks,
Going deeper,
The sounded bottom:
Ledge and sand and
Ripples, unseen,
Of energy—

But felt in my own
Moving waters.

Sedges holding secrets,
Today the Barge Canal
Smells like split pine and
Bleeding poplar.

Across, on the other shore,
Birch leaves glow with
Yellow-gold
resonance, holding on,

For now

in wind across water.

-Kevin Macneil Brown

Two October Paintings

( October Beach 2 ( Acrylic on canvas),

Toward Isle La Motte (watercolor on paper)

Paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown, 2009)

North Beach, End of Summer

North Beach, End of Summer (Burlington, Vermont)
Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, acrylic on canvas, 2009)

Lakescape/ Skyscape/ Soundscape

This video combines paintings and soundwork that I made during the spring and summer of 2009. It is intended as a contemplative evocation of Lake Champlain in the early morning: sounds, sights, and textures of a time and place where water, light, listening, and perception might come quietly together.
-KMB

Crossing the Lake in September

(Early September, Lake Champlain from Burlington Bay-
Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, acrylic on canvas, 2009)



FROM THE FERRY VALCOUR, LAKE CHAMPLAIN


Blue Sky
Broken clouds

Dark wing shadow
above
shimmer

(Crossing the
lake in September,
inner silence)


Scumbled blessings
Contrast of
Light and shadow


Reflected back,
the True World of

Love, that silence:

Blue water breathing.

-Kevin Macneil Brown

from THE MALLEABLE JOURNEY: POEMS (Liminal Editions, 2009)

Available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-malleable-journey/7522632

Across Waves, Across Surface Tension (Poem and Painting)

( Shelburne Bay, August - Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,

acrylic on canvas, 2009)

-----------------------

Ancient strength
and curve of flow of
waters between


Lone Rock Point’s
time-stilled geology

and
open arms of
Appletree Bay.



South, across waves,
across surface tension

Odzihozo
(the massive Rock Dunder)

changing, becomes,

in changing light
and beyond long journey,

a gray, weathered sail
or resting eagle.

- Kevin Macneil Brown