Monet's "Waterliies" - Robert Hayden

[Lawrence Robinson]

Monet's "Waterlilies” 

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon 
poisons the air like fallout, 
I come again to see 
the serene great picture that I love. 
Here space and time exist in light 
the eye like the eye of faith believes. 
The seen, the known 
dissolve in iridescence, become 
illusive flesh of light 
that was not, was, forever is. 
O light beheld as through refracting tears. 
Here is the aura of that world 
each of us has lost. 
Here is the shadow of its joy. 

	- Robert Hayden 


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