Starry Night Along the Rhone, by Jonathan Yungkans

Starry Night Over the Rhone, by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands), 1888.

Starry Night Along the Rhone

A night with blues,
violets,
greens,
of citron yellow slashes
but no black.

Dots,
flares and misshapen
fragments--
palest sparkles
pulled

where the mirror
faces its infinite self on water.
And the brush
wanders,
sputtering.

A gas lamp’s green
blues
pink-violet to blue-violet
amid cobalt
and forget-me-not

past ink’s lap on wood,
once the town
ebonizes
beyond a yellow-green lantern
as dreams swim.

Jonathan Yungkans

Jonathan Yungkans is a Los-Angeles-native poet, writer and photographer with an intense love for the sea and local history. He is currently an MFA Writing student at Califonia State University, Long Beach. His works have appeared in Lime Hawk, Silver Birch Press, Twisted Vine Literary Journal and other publications.