Antoni's Glasses, by Tricia Marcella Cimera

Blue With Four Red Bars, by Antoni Tapies (b. Spain), 1966.

Antoni's Glasses

I went to the museum
and put on Antoni Tapies’
glasses.  He had left them
in his Blue with Four Red Bars.
I stared at the painting, 
then    all    around    me.
A guard shouted at me
to take them off , put them
back, and I did.  But I never
saw the world the same way
again.  I tried, others tried, but —    
I couldn’t.

Tricia Marcella Cimera

This poem was written as part of the 20 Poem Challenge.

Tricia Marcella Cimera will forever be an obsessed reader and lover of words. Look for her work in these diverse places: Buddhist Poetry Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Foliate Oak, Fox Adoption, Hedgerow, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, Stepping Stones, Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere.  She has a micro collection of water-themed poems called THE SEA AND A RIVER on the Origami Poems Project website.  Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland).  She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox.