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Article: Still Life with Portrait.(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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STILL LIFE WITH PORTRAIT
I make a still life, set out on a shelf:
glass vase shaped like a trumpet,
white wind-flowers on green stems.
In the glow of the lamp
these flowers lift your eyes
to creams and greens in the portrait above,
a portrait of my sister in Seville.
The dark hair has been brushed
from her forehead and tied at the nape,
she could be Spanish, or Frida Kahlo.
Her burnt-almond stare is defiant,
she loves the student who paints her
in the high-backed, green chair,
a pale scarf foaming at her throat.
Neither my sister nor the artist
who soon left her
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