Pentimento

Careful consideration shows

traces of underdrawing.

Off-center.  Awkward.

Seed pearl tears dot the canvas.

Then a change of mind: 

brushed over with another venue.

Layers of new whitewash

show the transparency of my skin.

I look taller.  Three-dimensional.

Someone stands close behind.

There are curtainless windows.
Plenty of blue, because it is now.

tk/October 2014


R.A.D. Stainforth enjoys a glass and reads my poem...

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Self-portrait by Vivian Maier