“Dying Words” by Kevin C Chadwick
Walton Ford, Dying Words, 2005, etching on paper. Purchase made possible by the Suzanne Goodman Elson ’59 Fund for Acquisitions, 2014. Collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, founded as Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
after Walton Ford’s Dying Words
Laying low
to the ground
curious and feathered
all around
with beaks agape
and eyes transfixed
last dying words
carefully picked