BANK OF THE OISE AT AUVERS

(Van Gogh, 1890)

leafscape cool as rain
shallow boats like pea
shells clustered

lights stirs the braided
leaves locust
leaf willow
leaf greening the
glassy shadows

a purple boat
arcs like a half-
moon on the
jewelled water

sandbank the slow
fire-yellow of a
firefly's under
side

a man with two
wives their hats
cool yellow
tea flowers

one boat
(with brittle
sail) red as water-
melon the water
a quilted
mirror glows
vermilion

 

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