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Mourning Picture by Adrienne Rich

11/23/2015

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Mourning Picture, by Edwin Romanzo Elmer, 1890.
Mourning Picture

They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker 
out under the lilac bush, 
and my father and mother darkly sit there, in black clothes. 
Our clapboard house stands fast on its hill, 
my doll lies in her wicker pram 
gazing at western Massachusetts. 
This was our world. 
I could remake each shaft of grass 
feeling its rasp on my fingers, 
draw out the map of every lilac leaf 
or the net of veins on my father's  
grief-tranced hand.  
Out of my head, half-bursting, 
still filling, the dream condenses-- 
shadows, crystals, ceilings, meadows, globes of dew. 
Under the dull green of the lilacs, out in the light 
carving each spoke of the pram, the turned porch-pillars, 
under high early-summer clouds, 
I am Effie, visible and invisible, 
remembering and remembered. 

Adrienne Rich

as found on http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/listed-poems-inspired-paintings.


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