When I Look at the Pictures - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (3)

The Flower Seller At Covent Garden 1989

A great great great granddaughter
of Hogarth’s Shrimp Girl
the flower seller at Covent Garden
singing out in a voice
straight out of Shakespeare

Fair and buxom
skin like milk
fishwife cap
and flowers in her hair

She tosses back her head
with piercing cries
her sweet high voice singing out
like a songbird swooping
over the madding crowd

Poema de Lawrence Ferlinghetti para "The Shrimp Girl", 1745, William Hogarth. The National Gallery, Londres.