Monday, February 5, 2024

Even the Blanks Compose Delicate Rhymes

 

On the evening canvas and its rushing chill

the woman’s deeply displayed chest stood

in the quiet as a blank verse rummaging

around for a rhyme to ring and seal it all.

 

As if the ache of that missing link could have

delivered the waited-for ease and its solemn

proclamation—by which beauty and its art

would win at last a deserved admiration—

 

And the return, repeat, charming rhyme,

seemingly somehow mislaid—sadly gone,

overlooked or inappropriately ignored,

 

would have filled and fallen in that open blank

that haunts the score that should toll and chant

a work of love—concocted out of forty winks.

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