Monet Refuses The Operation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCADABEFAGBHIJAKA LAJAAEBMAEENAOEPQOAP AEAAARDoctor you say there are no haloes | A |
around the streetlights in Paris | A |
and what I see is an aberration | B |
caused by old age an affliction | B |
I tell you it has taken me all my life | C |
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels | A |
to soften and blur and finally banish | D |
the edges you regret I don't see | A |
to learn that the line I called the horizon | B |
does not exist and sky and water | E |
so long apart are the same state of being | F |
Fifty four years before I could see | A |
Rouen cathedral is built | G |
of parallel shafts of sun | B |
and now you want to restore | H |
my youthful errors fixed | I |
notions of top and bottom | J |
the illusion of three dimensional space | A |
wisteria separate | K |
from the bridge it covers | A |
What can I say to convince you | L |
the Houses of Parliament dissolves | A |
night after night to become | J |
the fluid dream of the Thames | A |
I will not return to a universe | A |
of objects that don't know each other | E |
as if islands were not the lost children | B |
of one great continent The world | M |
is flux and light becomes what it touches | A |
becomes water lilies on water | E |
above and below water | E |
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow | N |
and white and cerulean lamps | A |
small fists passing sunlight | O |
so quickly to one another | E |
that it would take long streaming hair | P |
inside my brush to catch it | Q |
To paint the speed of light | O |
Our weighted shapes these verticals | A |
burn to mix with air | P |
and change our bones skin clothes | A |
to gases Doctor | E |
if only you could see | A |
how heaven pulls earth into its arms | A |
and how infinitely the heart expands | A |
to claim this world blue vapor without end | R |
Lisel Mueller
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