This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-09-27 15:05:43 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Gallery Going, Going . . .

. . . Gone! they found the old man a century ago-- still, inert, cold against his canvas;     and now sundry gallery-goers peer in studious fuddle at these art-bursts    of dead genius, his frenzies frozen into dessicated evidence on cracked ochre canvas. Precognition?     Prescience?         Gratitude, perhaps-- as he exhaled his "Thank you"s       heavenward, to his own masters, far beyond the dusty skylight       somewhere, at the terminus of mystery where art is sport.

Copyright © September 2001 John R. Birkbeck

Additional Notes:
This poem was published in another form in Longitudes, Writer's Block, and Echo Magazine.


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