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Claude Monet, Waterlilies, 1916 |
Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons
the air like fallout,
I come
again to see
the
serene, great picture that I love.
Here
space and time exist in light
the eye
like the eye of faith believes.
The seen,
the known
dissolve
in iridescence, become
illusive
flesh of light
that was
not, was, forever is.
O light
beheld as through refracting tears.
Here is
the aura of that world
each of
us has lost.
Here
is the shadow of its joy.
I wonder what Hayden would make of today's news. He might be blogging about painting. Tomorrow: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Waterlily Fire"
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