In my grandparents, home
There was a painting of a bowl
Brown, with cream swirls,
Uneven and tilted, spilling its
Contents:
Red apples and green grapes,
Oranges, too, though,
Simply orange, but
In shades that differ
Ever so slightly,
Onto a table set for one
It takes a sharp eye to see
The tiny dimples and
Wrinkles, curves, and lines
Of the woman outside the
Frame.
Still, life is life.
simultaneously comforting and disconcerting, often the thing that makes a poem… and the end is a tell, or maybe not … a hand well played
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Thank you! This one came to my brain mostly in one piece. The fine-tuning has been an interesting exercise.
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