Los Angeles Exhibit A

Caspar David Friedrich, the rubric claims, was the first to invest
The language of landscape with human emotion. A few of his
Meisterwerks adorn the walls of the Getty, a museum
Seemingly created for the audacity of its views.
The art’s an added bonus; a haystack here, some irises
There. The super-scale city, laid out before the discerning
Patron’s eye, is the true attraction. As unaccommodating
In it’s sun-drenched way as Friedrich’s Northern landscape. Frozen snow
On an alder’s branch echoed in the shimmering freeway
Grid; our gaze trapped in an auto-motive chiaroscuro.