Meeting the Artist

I did not know you

Edvard Munch except

for the commonplace

of The Scream complete

with an inflatable doll

but I met you in this

former power plant

that belched electricity

to a city of millions.

I met you there

Edvard Munch

and I found a man

as preoccupied with age

and time as I am.

In London, I visited the Tate Modern, which had an exhibit entitled “Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye.”

Painting: Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm by Edvard Munch (1895 lithograph)