philadelphia – mabel lee

The Bourse

Urban sketching event at the Bourse in Olde City — pen and watercolor

Habitual return into lands of outer Philadelphia highway along reeds and pale water grey a source for exhale, exile power plant giants call the edge their home — these late afternoon hauls and winding hum from lane to dust-shaded pavement darkened in deep-thought rain — always the bridge is its blue, and its criss-cross beamsContinue reading “City Limits”

Cumberland

Down Cumberland the kiddie pools have been emptied, deflated, dragged indoors and the old trees are lingering with slow leaves as dusk catches up inch by inch. Past the steepled church of dark red brick that stretches up into the twilight kind of streetlight and its sign that jokes: “Sign broken. Come inside for message,”Continue reading “Cumberland”