Balcony by Mercedes Webb-Pullman

The Balcony 2, by Brett Whitely (Australia), 1975.

 
Balcony

When Wendy said
she wanted a yacht
he painted her
a harbor with no horizon
so flat against the picture plane
boats almost tumbled
from Lavender Bay 
into their room.

She always checked
the carpet
in case water 
had poured
down the walls.

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Mercedes Webb-Pullman started writing in 2007 and graduated from IIML Victoria University with MA in Creative Writing 2011. Her work has appeared in Turbine, 4th Floor, Swamp, Reconfigurations, The Electronic Bridge, Otoliths, Connotations, The Red Room, Typewriter Silver Birch Press, and Cliterature, among others, and in her books. The latest, The Jean Genie, explores the work of Jean Genet. She lives on the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.