SUFFER THIS PERFECT STORM

 

Wiping down cleaning up
old selves surface
suffering
shifting chameleon
tasting pressing uncharted
limits beyond delineation
through paint alone.

Is that illegitimate
does it diminish or enhance
through transcendent
tactile construct
delights of eye
poseur voyeur or just
the power of art.

Suffer in solidarity
what a novel idea
as if we have any choice
regarding sufferance
slipping through
numbed fingers suffer
this perfect storm.

 

 

– Diane Sophrin
  Montpelier, Vermont (9.22.23)

 

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