Beyond the Window

                         after Salvador Dali's Figure at Window

​Artist: Salvador Dali 
b. May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain; d. January 23, 1989, Figueres, Spain 
Title:  Figure at Window
Date: 1925
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Beyond the window
where the water brings
the handsome things
 a song overrides the wreck
 
I listen
 
for where the day meets sunrise
and a lovers quarrel can be heard
across the bay
in a small kitchen   lit with soft white light
 
I listen
 
for a Wednesday paradox;
an old man whistling   hola
in a goodbye boat
 
I listen
 
to the hum of raggedy curtains
blue with truth
and a dish towel   set aside
to wipe away my dread
 
I listen
 
to what I have refined within a woman;
the wind against my youth
groves of uttering shrubs
            fields of sky;
tattered leather flats
a whole wide world
cast-away
 
and these cabin fever hips
that soon again   will dance

​"Beyond the Window after Salvador Dali's Figure at the Window" has been published by 433, May 2020