Light, by Jackie Sizemore

Quietude, by Max Ernst (Germany) 1929

​Light
 
waves penned upward
crash
I stumble onto a row of
non-descript artwork, small frames
blue-black, an armchair surfs along the sea
mustached man a willing participant
therapy session with Poseidon?
arm curled like a shell,
the kind of chair people put in rooms only for decoration,
certainly not for riding.
lighthouse lurking,
shining,
the light.
the light what?
A search for meaning,
this is a modern art museum, after all. ​

Jackie Sizemore
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"With no hometown to speak of, I come from the Rust Belt, the South, and Tokyo. My poetry has appeared in Noble / Gas Qtrly, Print Oriented Bastards, Yes Poetry, and Variant Literature. My lyric essay was listed as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2018. My projects have earned SAFTA and Wildacres residencies. I received my MFA from Boise State University and BA from Carnegie Mellon University."