WHAT IF?
what if
no picture
tells a
story?
what if
there is no
picture at all?
but faces are here
speaking their truth
hiding something
lining
the walls
of this
sublime gallery
and here, above all,
that enigmatic madam
with her Louvre smile
we all want the light
need the light
accordingly
build chapels, erect
cathedrals, write
gospels of the heart
need to
see everything, capture
everything
leave nothing
to conspiracy
need
to know
no one falls alone,
unlamented
from cliff
into abyss
whose crevasse, to be blunt
has opened
to receive you, eagerly
welcome
into
the fold
little girl who caught the eye
out there in
what was once Abyssinia
stalked
by a vulture
seem to need
a pinch of Solomon here
that I might
begin to understand
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