Parliamentarians, by Kathryn Paul

The Houses of Parliament, by Claude Monet (France) 1904

Parliamentarians

What weighty matter
must they be
debating — those so-important men --

What struggles
inflame the very air
that walls them in--
walls within walls, 
within which they
storm and strut and pound
fists against egos,
demands, and absolutes.

Truth is,
this smoldering fog
will slowly and inexorably 
blur their monumental
self-importance, as — unaware --
they grow dim and then
dissolve into the mist.

Kathryn Paul

Kathryn Paul is a survivor of many things, including cancer and downsizing. Her poems have appeared in Luna Luna; Intima; Rogue Agent; and The Ekphrastic Review. Kathy has recently transplanted herself to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she finds inspiration in the tenacious plants that insist on growing in the desert. 

​Read Kathryn's poem after Remedios Varo, here.

Read Kathryn's poem after the Venus of Willendorf, here.