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Gallery Going, Going…
by John Birkbeck

…gone

the old man was found still

up against his canvas one hundred

years ago

and now sundry gallery-seekers peer

in studious fuddle

at these art-bursts of dead genius

his frenzies frozen into

desiccated evidence on ancient

cracked canvas


Precognition?

Prescience?

Gratitude perhaps?

as he exhaled his Thank Yous heavenward

where his own masters were

above the dusty skylight

somewhere

at the terminus of mystery where

art is sport


-- from Longitudes

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