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"Evergreen Cemetery, Dodge Caravan"

Brad and I are away on our summer travels, so we’ve dug into the Plein Air Poetry Archives! :) Today’s post is about painting and writing in the cemetery near our house, and the sound of Kentucky summers: a symphony of humidity and heat. To...

11 days ago
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God is doing 10,000 wonderful things right now

Brad and I are away on our summer travels, so we’ve dug into the Plein Air Poetry Archives! :) Today’s post includes an older poem and a new painting. To see the poem in its original post (with a different painting and some meaningful conve...

18 days ago
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From the Archives: "Bob's Used Auto Parts"

Brad and I are away on our summer travels, so we’ve dug into the Plein Air Poetry Archives! :) Today’s post is what I’d consider our ars poetica—a snapshot of the creative life Brad and I are building together. To see the post in its origin...

25 days ago
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In Corpse Pose A Year After My Mom's Death

“Dormant Sycamore, Sayler Park” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 12”x11”

In Corpse Pose a Year After My Mom’s Death

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The yoga teacher on the video says to let our bodies rest,

our bodies know how to heal themselves if we let them.

M...

a month ago
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So Much Water: A Memory Poem and a Painting of Roses

“Roses, Friendship Park,” Brad Davis, 2026, oil on wood, 9”x12”

So Much Water

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Our eyes swim in it, glint in the light.

My Nana was scared of water, she couldn’t swim.

She held her breath in the shower, bracing as the

stream ran ov...

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  • Plein Air Poetry

    Words from Alexandra McIntosh & paintings by Brad Davis. Dispatches from our search for the sublime. Working mostly en plein air ("in the open air") in the Impressionist tradition.

  • Brad Davis

    Cincinnati Painter

  • Alexandra McIntosh

    Alexandra McIntosh lives and writes in Kentucky, her favorite place in the world. Her book of poetry, Bowlfuls of Blue, is available from Assure Press.

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