Thursday, March 10, 2022

Today's offering - "blank document"

 

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in a rowboat squirms Captain Quigley 

aerial fish spiral, jaws champing, teethspray

 

it’s a painting I think: a fine one, photorealistic

the good captain looks like he might speak

 

a fish camp looms in the landscape, in chiseled relief

but is incapable of speech, remembering something

 

he doesn’t want to fish today: he sees something ashore

the lake isn’t blue, nor is the sky: uncertain in time

 

flowers bloom somewhere else some other painting

the look on his face makes me remember this portrait again

 

I look back when the frame is empty

so slowly the gallery empties

 

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