picture poem
A Possible Oak
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les pommes rouges et vertes
With an apple I will astonish Paris says Cezanne
and it could be four apples
in a bowl
but it’s the fifth one
that draws the eye &
puckers the mouth at its green-ness
Recall the many and nameless
Dutch Still Lifes,
silver platters scattered with
fish, limp hares, lemons, and that
red apple
What of Magritte’s Son of Man –
that viridescent hovering apple
for a face, his self portrait?
And how beautiful is Eve
again & yet again
shamelessly reaching
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On Seeing the Woman of Willendorf
I want to crawl up and make a nest
between those pendulous breasts
forget my words and the daily news
You must spiral a l-o-n-g way down
your DNA to accomplish this
but when you do
you will remember why you
scrabbled out of the sea
and grew arms
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Colleen TwoFeathers is a mixed media artist and poet working and living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.