Glass Piece & Posters from a Small-Town Museum
Glass of glowing fig
shaped splendor… purples
yellows, blues and blended
greens stretching oblong
& vasing gallons of air:
A Tiffany style trap of
Art against Nature.
Beyond, the Belle Epoque begins,
covered in paper flowers
and cigarette girls sprung
from the corpses of forgotten
Franco-Prussians:
A rebirth, a renaissance,
A respite before Les Fleurs
Du Mal from unmarked
graves and grass trampled
by infantry squares.
Lessons learned from war
dispersed by good food & drink
destined for repetition.
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Bernard, you portray war without mentioning guns, bombs, explosions, for the museum piece does it perfectly…
Subtle, solemn, and elegant. I love: “A Tiffany style trap of/
Art against Nature.”
You set the scene so well!
“covered in paper flowers
and cigarette girls sprung
from the corpses of forgotten” – wow!
this line sings:
covered in paper flowers
and cigarette girls sprung
from the corpses of forgotten
Franco-Prussians:
Excellent! And that last line — BOOM. Thank you for sharing this remarkable poem.
You had me at this sonic and descriptive opening:
Glass of glowing fig
shaped splendor… purples
yellows, blues and blended
greens stretching oblong
& vasing gallons of air: