Yes, I saw the movie. I even read the book. I've even looked at the
paintings before I saw the movie. I'm haunted. Jacob Van Eyck snuck in
there early this morning. Even though he died 9 years bofore Vermeer
painted Scarlett Johanssen--hey, it's my fantasy, I can do as I
please:-). Subject to rewrite for _Skald_.
ken
THE GLANCE
(after "Girl With a Pearl Earring," J. Vermeer, Delft, c. 1666)
Don't look at me like that,
slightly parted lips,
the "c'mere and fuck me" look.
Quite mad to find you,
centuries dead, an object of desire.
Today in glitzy catalogues,
in thinny-thin women
tight jeans, halter tops,
you have your inheritors,
so much a falling-off.
Your glance not surly or
even a challenge,
no pout, no moué,
the glance perhaps
unintended openness,
a gift of spirit visible
even through a starched headdress
not white-virginal but of the world.
Were you alive for him,
were time and space compressed
to Utrecht or to Delft,
Jacob Van Eyck, blind to your loveliness,
blinded by your beauty,
still would would through the churchyard,
play you on his little flute,
La Dolce Sirena.
KTW/8-10-05
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Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
"Poetry is tribal not material....this is where you can remember the good
times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst,
else you cannot be healed."--C. D. Wright
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