Chagallian Love Story, by Siobhán Mc Laughlin

Paris Through the Window, by Marc Chagall (France, b. Russia) 1913

Chagallian Love Story 
 
Someone is trapezing  
through a tricolor sky. 
 
Songs coalesce in air, 
the moon serendipitous, huge. 
 
Windowpane colours  
at exhalations of poet/painter. 
 
Carnival city sleeps,  
somnambulant heart awakes. 
 
A cat with a wistful face sits agape  
at the spectacle of flight. 
 
Flowers as always, a tapestry, a talisman, 
signifying the romantic fool. 
 
While in the background (look closely)
horizontally struck - 
 
a man and a woman 
have fallen in love; 
 
Oh Paris! Oh world! Oh wonder!
art imitating life, a thousand times over. 
 
And the whole world conspires  
to make it all true.

Siobhán Mc Laughlin

Siobhán is a poet from Co. Donegal in Ireland and has been published several times in The Ekphrastic Review. Her poems have been published in The Honest Ulsterman, Drawn to the Light Press, The Poetry Village, The Trouvaille Review, Bealtaine Magazine and Quince as well as others. She enjoys reading and writing ekphrastic poetry, both of which she finds is a meditative and transportive exercise. She blogs at www.a-blog-of-ones-own.blogspot.com Twitter: @siobhan347