To the tripart Monets hung in the Columbus Art Museum:
3 is powerful and you know that
Muted notes so orchestrated into power and vividness they are fragrant
You are art and your careful gathering exponentiates art
So that the air in the room is thick and balmy

When sensuality was vulgar, Keats was born
Nature will balance
When I stand in that room I know my counterpart
To create is to die and to die is too late