Self-Portrait with Black Background I carry the world on my back, a cup and flask to drink, bread that will not weight me. I carry the clear Finnish light to save its summer flame. I dispose of what I can until the face is plainly empty, till I behold the road, its fork, the small steps tread. I set cornerstones to anchor paint to more than earth, even if at times it is myself. I remove details like brush cleared from the spruce forest. Study my face as if stranger-- cleft of chin, salmon cheeks, cloudberry lips, pale skin. Background dark-dark-dark like the infinite winter night. At the edge of Helsinki Harbor, I set down the world. I rinse my visage in the Baltic Sea. Sharon Tracey Sharon Tracey is a writer and editor and author of the poetry collection, What I Remember Most Is Everything (All Caps Publishing, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Egg Mom Review, Tule Review, Common Ground Review, The Ekphrastic Review, several anthologies and elsewhere. sharontracey.com
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