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The Olive Trees by van Gogh

bychampagne1982©

An ekphrastic poem
inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's painting




    If I squint, the bars on the window
    disappear as if I were free
    like the cloud scoops blue
    out of the distant waves of mountain
    to lift a drink to God’s lips
    and stirs the green of the olive trees
    until the colour rises to my mouth
    and I can taste the mercy that is beauty.

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