#1702 - eyes of an accusation

 

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27.ix.24

eyes of an accusation

ekphrastic for Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’

at the Whitney

 

the under thumb, nor owned

hard core

middling

 

hard yards

acres cleared

of tree, of soul

 

hard day goes down

 

the spoon

the cup

the bowl

all empty

 

forget the gone

they live the grief

 

hard hearts

and elsewhere heads

 

have arrested time here

 

all sturdy with the what must be

 

the making great again

 

upright

straight

well gnarled

hard

 

‘when will you?’

they seem to say

 

time’s well past

 

the dark that is coming

is here