sábado, outubro 07, 2006

When I Look at the Pictures - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (4)


Sorolla’s Women In Their Picture Hats

Sorolla’s women in their picture hats
stretched upon his canvas beaches
beguiled the Spanish
Impressionists

And were they fraudulent pictures
of the world
the way the light played on them
creating illusions
of love?
I cannot help but think
that their “reality”
was almost as real as
my memory of today

when the last sun hung on the hills
and I heard the day falling
like the gulls that fell
almost to land

while the last picnickers lay
and loved in the blowing yellow broom
resisted and resisting
tearing themselves apart

again

again

until the last hot hung climax
which could at last no longer be resisted
made them moan

And night’s trees stood up
Poema de Lawrence Ferlinghetti para "Promenade on the Beach", 1907, de Joaquin Sorolla. Sorolla Museum, Madrid

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