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[poetrees]

happy v-daze. as always, i accidentally wrote a poem on topic recently, unintentionally. damn, this one even says the day in it. last year's ' egyptologist on a date,' happened accidentally too. *bonus points to anyone who can find an intarweb-img of the Rembrandt print mentioned be-low. i'd love to share it with you, but apparently it's too hot for general searches or any articles reviewing exhibitions that included it. bummer. danke mizzytizzy, >> "The French Bed"

>> shut without modulation

I wear pyjamas
            bought on a Valentine’s
            mission
            airy day
            three years ago
            I was carried
            from thrift store
            to car
            an
                        easy
            chair with wobbly legs
            my boyfriend
            laughing
            at my feet
            bitten by maryjanes
            trying to make
            me (a)
                        match

I sit in bed toying with a down pillow’s feather
                                    (quill too small for any India’s ink)
And all I want is to write
            Rembrandt’s “French Bed”
                  woman with two left
                  arms
            one to mother                  one to Magdalene
            one left guides him in,                  one left lies-
            sedately

Instead compare the boyfriend
            as man in Vermeer’s “Concert”
            stares into the landscape
            on the underside of the harpsichord      lid.
            No doubt
            never heard the women tuning
                                                their screams
            when the painting was stolen,
                                          still lost
            probably in that varnish
            forest
                  his ears piqued for birdsong all along.