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The Legal Studies Forum
Volume 30, Number 1/2 (2006) reprinted by permission Legal Studies Forum Lawyers & Poets Walk This Lonesome SARA JANE BOYERS ________________________ Black Rothko - Rothko No. 1, 1964I saw a Rothko today. Black Squares suspended in vertical stasis. One mordant form. An inapposite other. Oppressive. Pulsating. Inviolate. It made me cry - for Lillian, my aunt. Her centenarian years: a life presence always. - for Jackson, my dog. His time: my children's youth. - for the loss of family not formed, though the years should have made it so. - for my own life suspended, undone by death well done. Perhaps Rothko too cried although, had he cried, He might not have ended it as he did. [453]
Sara Jane Boyers is a former music industry attorney/executive and personal manager of performers, who changed directions to become a writer and photographer. She is a graduate of the University of California (Berkeley & Los Angeles) and obtained her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School. Boyers is the creator of a series of illustrated books on contemporary art and poetry including, Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1993) and is the author of Teen Power Politics: Make Yourself Heard (Millbrook Press, 2000), a book for youth on civics and political activism. A Southern Californian, Boyers is a contributor to print journals and websites, a lecturer on issues of civic and political involvement, and the creator/owner of an e-newsletter and website that focuses on political issues and current events of interest to youth. Her photography was recently exhibited as part of a project on North American Chinatowns for which she has developed an illustrated book. |
