Van Gogh Eternity’s Gate, by Joshua Dean

At Eternity's Gate, by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands). 1890.

Van Gogh Eternity’s Gate

Forgetting is not in the poet
the painter, the artist.
We are not psychopaths,
murderers, walking away
with bloody hands
from so many
familiar bodies.
We are the nerves
of the universe
throbbing with something
real. We are Van Gogh’s
old man in the chair--
elbows on his knees,
hands blinding the present
mind racing
towards the past.

Joshua Dean

Joshua Dean, who goes by Dean, is a second-year MFA student attending Georgia College and State University. He has a French background and an indisputable attraction to Romantic literature which has influenced his poems. The South serves as his poetic landscape, as much as he wants it to or not. He has grown to appreciate the South and writes odes to it, despite the racial tensions and poor political policies of that geographical area. Dean's poetry has appeared in the River Heron Review. 
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