Imagine: In the Yellow House, Arles
Yesterday’s replica was of Van Gogh’s
Arles bedroom.  The
cups.  The rumpled
red bed-
            covering
the almost
                        floating
above angle the viewer
                        needs
to appreciate
                        standing
to see
                                    it
all falling some-
                                    how
down
            hill.  (it seems the bedroom 
                        wasn’t
plumb, he’d said
                        in
a letter to Theo)
                                    but
to see it
                                    the
way Vincent saw
to paint it perspectively
            waiting for
people
            to sit to
sleep against the edge
            of the wall,
the straw sun
            hat hung
behind the head
            board next
to the frumpy paint clustered
            frocks but
oh the room is so…
                                    See?!
                        RED!
& BLUE & LIVINGLY 
                                    neat!
unrumpled cover.  In
the painting
there’s room for two:
            two chairs
            two pillows
            two then
two paintings & one
                        where
two might
                                    walk,
grasping each other, through to the trees.


 
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