 Great Piece of Turf, by Albrecht Dürer (German) 1503 Great Piece of Turf after Diane Seuss’ poem Young Hare This is the companion to the other one the one we like better because a lovely brown rabbit twitches instead of a mud flat of weeds sitting inert The one we like better is not a fist of green cock’s foot, creeping bent, a mud flat of weeds sitting inert smooth meadow-grass, star-shaped daisy, dandelion like a bunched up fist including hounds-tongue, yarrow, plantain yes, meadow-grass with daisies and blowball an untidy, higgledy-piggledy, mishmash of gypsy flower, milfoil, fleawort hodgepodge, swimming green stems untidy, higgledy-piggledy, mishmash with wildly tangled roots exposed hodgepodge, swimming green stems like the muscles in a hand Leonardo sketched with wildly tangled roots exposed this verdant chaos is painted by you using the muscles in your hand Albrecht, a sign that your mind was able to delineate this verdant chaos you painted but not to order it, not in this case Albrecht, a sign of your complex mind it is oh so lovely this detailed scrub of wild weeds not ordered, not organized, not gathered I can even smell the peppery must of dandelion Lovely and detailed is this scrub with the waft of rosemary in yarrow peppery must of dandelion the drift of mint from daisies The scent glide in yarrow the green colours the olives, the lime drift of mint chartreuse with its blinding shine, the green colours the olives and lime the depth of Kelly tongue- touched sea foam chartreuse with its shiny pistachio. I can taste them too the depth of Kelly tongue –touched sea foam like melting green ice cream the taste of chocolate mint cookies and while you didn’t sketch a secret window in the melting ice cream leaves The glint on the meadow grass contains no secret sketch like the window reflected in the rabbit’s eye the glint on the meadow grass mirrors back to us what we want to see in the window in the hare’s eye ourselves looking in Amy Phimister Amy Phimister retired in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and has been published by WFOP, Yardstick Books, several anthologies and The Ekphrastic Review, and was twice a finalist for the Hal Prize. She published a children’s book in 2021 called ABC the Animals, a scavenger hunt through the alphabet.
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September 2022
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