Art Is Meant to Arrest

Week 25

Art Is Meant to Arrest

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            1.   Even though you have no training in art appreciation, as

                  in my case, your eye and heart can go out to a painting.

            2.   Taking some time, unhurried, thoughts, feelings, can

                  come to you as if asked to imagine in some harmless

                  game.

            3.   You can ask artists what they had in mind when they

                  crafted something and they may say they don’t know or

                  can’t remember.

            4.   So it’s up to you to determine for yourself what the

                  message and meaning are.

            5.   Catherine has been my friend for almost a dozen years.

                  She’s to the right on the wall beside our bed.

            6.   She’s ever silent and makes me wonder.

            7.   I wish she could tell me how it all turned out.

Painting

Catherine, 

each day my eye

goes to you.

Naked, your long back

to me, resting on

your lower limbs,

left foot tucked under

your bottom, settled,

as many women,

your left arm resting

on your knee.

Fresh from the

band of youth,

retaining Spring,

a picture of lily-like

concentration

along a thin firm line,

your light hair gathered

in a bun, a possible

severity. There is a

redness in your side,

a recent wounding? Are

you a Madame Butterfly

of Russia? An

American Southerner,

melancholy in a day room,

fresh from a bath,

warm air flowing

over your shoulders?

Or is there just the

slightest smile of

anticipation

as you look down?

Some kind of

preparation?

Yes, that’s it.

What

do you face?

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