Blue Girl I’m standing in a gallery with my hands in my pockets. A girl is looking out at me from a painting wondering (judging by the expression on her face) whether I am wondering the same thing that she’s been wondering since Paul Cezanne painted her in a shady garden wearing her blue dress and white apron in 1873, which is, “what is the difference between impressionism and expressionism?” But I’m not thinking that at all. I’m wondering why it feels to me as though Paul Cezanne had painted me standing in front of her in my cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirt with my hands in my pockets in 1973. David Jibson David Jibson is the editor of Third Wednesday Magazine, a quarterly print journal of literary and visual art. He is a coordinator for events of the Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Bob Bradshaw
3/13/2019 12:53:06 pm
Very well done! We have all had that feeling, and you have captured it beautifully
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