A Poet's Patience announces itself through the quiet authority of its verticality, rising to over two meters in a sinuous column that rewards unhurried attention. Brad Howe has shaped stainless steel and urethane into a form that feels simultaneously resolved and restless, its surfaces catching and redistributing light as the viewer's position shifts. The work belongs to a body of sculpture that Howe has developed over decades, one rooted in the conviction that abstraction can carry emotional weight without resorting to narrative or symbol. Here, the title is not incidental. Patience, in Howe's hands, is not passivity but sustained attentiveness, the kind a poet brings to language before committing a single word to the page. Fabricated to endure year-round outdoor placement, the piece is built for the long relationship that serious collecting demands. The stainless steel construction resists the weathering and oxidation that compromise lesser works, meaning the optical qualities that distinguish the sculpture indoors translate with full integrity to a garden, courtyard, or architectural threshold. The urethane elements introduce a tonal counterpoint, softening the steel's industrial associations and lending the composition a warmth that prevents it from reading as purely mechanical. This interplay between industrial material and considered form is characteristic of Howe's practice, which situates itself at the productive intersection of industrial fabrication and fine art sensibility. Howe has exhibited internationally and his sculptures are held in significant private and corporate collections. A Poet's Patience is signed by the artist and offered through DEAN PROJECT. At its scale, it functions as both object and presence, the kind of work that quietly organizes the space around it and continues to offer something new with each encounter over time.