Edward’s Pout
Why the pout Edward Hopper?
Your many self portraits interchangeable
Turned down mouth
Empty eyes
Stoic
Sour
Brooding
Not a hint of a punch line
But always impeccably dressed
What lies beneath?
Your marriage to Josephine, Jo
Reads rather contentious, tumultuous
Yet she was your subject
Diminutive
Combative muse
Bedraggled nude
Expressionless
Perhaps eating from tin cans
Transformed you both to granite
Brushstrokes of simplicity
Your artistic gifts portrayed loneliness
Dark shadows
Deep thoughts
Solitude
Isolation
Until you created coastal scenes
Where you found light essence
And release
Musings on “Little Goose Girl” by Millet
What have you seen
Simple thatched house
Generations of simple folk
Who patched your humble walls
The geese at your doorstep
Years of harvest and famine
Like the seasons
And phases of the moon
Within, the acrid smells of your hearth
Beside you the giant tree
Your sentinel
Why does this interest me, you ask
Oh, I feel your heartbeat
(Poetry Workshop at Boston Museum
of Fine Arts, French Pastels, with Regie Gibson)
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