Layers of stone
textures of time
rest heavily upon the artist,
the brother, the painter
the agent, supporting
the brother, the painter
the wheat field behind
(in three dimensions)
perhaps above
(in two dimensions)
thickly laid strokes
of photographic paint
but without crows
this time, all time
This poem is submitted for the Poetics prompt of "texture" by dVerse Poets. To see more poems, please visit dVerse Poets.
Photograph: Gravesite of Vincent and Thos Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Painting: Wheat field with Crows (1890), Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The painting was finished a few weeks before Vincent Van Gogh’s death. His brother, Theo, died six months later. There is a wheat field behind the wall shown in the photograph.
