Cockeyed
Everything’s lopsided in this dream. A cockeyed grandfather clock with no pendulums, time stopped at 5 minutes until 6 o’clock. A tall, crooked window through which you view a red roof and a brown tile dome, both perfectly straight, or are they askew, the window level? Books lean in a shadowy alcove on a wall frieze of fuzzy shapes and colors, or is that the mural of what the girl asleep on the velvety couch is viewing? She looks cold in her snowflake stockings, miniskirt, tank top. Is she dreaming a lover to cover her? On a nearby table, a Victrola phonograph with a blue horn waits for him to touch the stylus down, start the music.
~ Inspired by David Martiashvili’s digital art Sleeping Girl
20 thoughts on "Cockeyed"
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Nice ekphrastic poem! My favorite line is “Is she dreaming a lover to cover her?” Beautiful!
Thank you, Katrina!
I agree with Katrina. I love to think about what’s not in the painting, so the lover you’ve added is just right!
Thanks, Nancy!
I love how you have the woman waiting for her lover to arrive to “touch the stylus down, start the music. “
Thank you, Ellen.
Love the poem and artwork!
Thanks, Kevin.
I love your take in this piece of art! I especially like the question you ask–“Is she dreaming a lover to cover her?” And the ending is great, too!
Thank you!
this is so good
I could spend all day
…with this painting
…and your poem
Thank you, Jim!
Such a wonderful companion poem! Beautiful end!
Thanks, Sylvia!
Love this start: Everything’s lopsided in this dream.
Thanks, Pam!
You capture the dreamy quality of the picture so we’ll.
Thank you, Gwyneth!
So many good sounds accompany the images–like the lover, cover and this
“wall frieze of fuzzy shapes and colors,”
This feels to me like Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams.’