He came across some
Postcards
Unravelling piles of papers
With annotations
But mostly correspondence
Of family members
Of his elderly friend.
A portrait
A face drawn with stark
Shadows
An interesting expressive
Depiction of a self-portrait:
Leo Maillet’s “Moi”
An etching dated 1945.
His eyes with a penetrating
Look
Right thru’ the viewer
His lips curled in an angry
Mood.
Another card showing
“Red in Anger”
A watercolour with faces
In tense expressions
Some white overlay blotches
Set against a dark moss-green
Background.
An inspiring work
Yet the poet’s spouse thinks
Nothing of the work
But then he is not at all
Concerned about other opinions
Being inspired by Millet’s work
Taking home some detail
Or other to transform it
In his own work at random
Whenever the mood or an
Opportunity arises.
POSTCARDS.SDRACTSOP
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ZJG-POetry’19.