Dear Ken...this is a link to a digital manipulation of a photograph of
myself, taken by my daughter - somehow it reminds me of the painting by
Vermeer - but not your poem, lol... Your poem brings to mind, the film:
"Closer", with Julia Roberts.
Best, Deborah
http://authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=8567&id=142292
>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
>
>--
>---------------
>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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