Helen Sears There’s something missing: little Helen Sears, In white dress and white shoes, standing between The room’s red darkness and the green-gold light Exploding through a window on the blue Hydrangeas in their brass urns, glowing up Over her face like revelation, seems Unaware of the flowers her fingers touch. Empty some call her, thinking Sargent viewed Her as a kind of pretty object. But Look close: her right leg’s crossed over the left Completely, as if in ecstatic dance. Her fingers, arched, are playing the petals like Piano keys. Her stern eyes stare outside, At what she’s missing so the man can paint. V. J. Saraf V. J. Saraf lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife and daughter. When not writing poetry, he runs a software business in the medical/healthcare space, and enjoys sailing in Boston Harbor and the many wonderful museums of New England.
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Sandra Frye
3/15/2021 03:09:09 pm
Love this poem. The insight into the girl is brilliant.
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Katie
3/31/2021 01:06:54 am
love the meditation on the idea of "something missing" and the depth and complexity it takes on here
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