Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Contemporary, Poetry, Adult
ISBN: 9781588362780
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002-09-16T23:00:00+00:00

And I was even more surprised

after a period of benevolent staring

to notice how the stark profile of that woman,

fixed forever in her chair,

began to resemble my own ancient mother

now fixed forever in the earth, the stars, the air.

I figured Whistler titled the painting

Arrangement in Gray and Black

instead of what everyone else calls it

to show he was part of the Paris scene,

but when I strolled along the riverbank,

after my museum tour,

I imagined how the woman’s heart

could have broken

by being demoted from mother

to mere arrangement, a composition without color.

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