The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis

Author:Larry Levis [Levis, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822979272
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

3. Turban

Sometimes, in the Brueghel paintings, the children who are skating hold perfectly

Still for a moment; I could have counted them there, if I wanted to. Or a boy

Has just fallen out of the sky, & no matter how hard the water is the splash

On the canvas is always silent, & can only grow more so. And the water rising

For centuries around the boy is famous only for the little silence it displays.

The way the paint has cracked slightly on the canvas is meant to remind you

That this is, after all, only a painting. In which Brueghel has destroyed time.

And Rembrandt, smiling at this, still has to put his house up for sale before

He can paint another self-portrait. This time he is St. Paul with a wry turban

On his head! There is a kind of forgiveness in it all. He looks as if he is

About to smile, but he does not, & then after a few moments it looks as if

He will never smile again. The turban is the dirty white of a popular beach.

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