Sally Elesby featured 6/16

6/16/14 Sally Elesby featrured

Sally Elesby is a writer and artist who lives in Oakland. Her poetry has been published in OccuPoetry, and will appear in future issues of The Main Street Rag and The Lyric. Elesby comes out of a visual arts background. Her paintings were featured in solo exhibitions at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Karen Golden Fine Art in New York. Elesby taught painting at California College of the Arts until her retirement in 2012.

INFRASTRUCTURE                                                                                 Sally Elesby 2011

That pothole

under the bridge that's

being retrofitted behind

concrete Jersey barriers tagged

with black graffiti and

an eight foot construction wall painted

baby blue, which

redirects traffic into

one lane so dump trucks can

come and go except

during rush hours when

gridlock quickly

frustrates commuters whose

tires chew into asphalt with

stops and start-ups day

after day--two times a day--for

almost one year,

has doubled in size.