Chagall’s Poet With the Birds
The wistful poet implored, “Please sing to me of windswept sapphire skies and phantom wings, of gold-spun silk beneath the emerald trees, and glowing fields of stained glass shimmerings, glimmers of blade and leaf. In tapestries that float above the village green, where magic flute and troubadour weave reveries, reveal young lovers cast upon a mystic sea, whispering words of love. Paint me a medley of dappled blooms in floral bouquets where lyrics nest like childhood memories of fragrant sweetgrass, warm-wind summer days.” The painter knows the poet with his muse awash in azure shades of luminous blues. dl mattila dl mattila is the author of Quietus, a collection of poems. She holds an MA in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. This poem was first published in Blast Furnace.
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