Laura Urban Perry
Laura Urban Perry is a poet, artist, and award-winning graphic designer. Her poems have been published in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Consilience, Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds , and by the Northwest Museum of Art. She earned a BFA from University of Washington and taught web design and typography at Cornish Institute of the Arts.
Never far from woods or water, she grew up in New York, California, and London, England. When she moved to complete her studies in the Pacific Northwest, she found home. Her fascination with art, science, and language fueled her career as a publication designer, a digital design pioneer & creative director at Aldus/ Adobe, and in her own consultancy as a user-experience and brand designer. Now she devotes her time to poetry, photography, and close observation of the artful miracles of nature and the sea. She lives in Seattle and sometimes in an off-grid cabin she built with her husband and kids on an island with no roads.
Poem from False Horizons
Well, Love, We’re Here Again
Wrecked at ebb tide, slipping sideways around boulders of unfinished business, a crushed Coke can flattened into beach rust, chili pepper crabs with cracked claws. We swerve and totter, bump shoulders to steady our steps. Why…. Why…. the wind wallows, while eagles stutter and screech. Our huddled embrace a refuge, rough caress and salt kiss. Everything beautiful, a blink away from shattering. I guess that’s why we’re here, to cling to what’s not yet broken.
