This poem is taken from PN Review 171, Volume 33 Number 1, September - October 2006.
Three Poems' Red Flowers on Black'
after a painting by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop's Devil's Paintbrush bouquet
sprouts out of thin air, from a fourteen fingered
fist of leaves. The red heads bud on the flat black
background and nod in conversation like old
straight-laced ladies. Several, in small groups
of three or more, lean their heads together
or half turn away to whisper over their shoulders.
One seems about to wander away into another
room off-right to think it all over, or to say quietly
something she's been thinking about for years.
Sestina with Two Lines by Charles Tomlinson
Summer thunder darkens: the evening is falling apart.
It is the end of the end of the second season of the year.
We have lived through the apocalypse for too long.
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