O'Keeffe's eye
after a photo of Georgia O'Keeffe in Amarillo, 1912

Gray sky is not right
for melancholy. It
distracts, drives
to distraction what
needs sun bleached blue
sky lucidity
over sand broken
by lines of prairie
grass on tiptoe
waiting for wind
or O'Keeffe's eye
in long coat
narrowed over
half smile, hat
pulled down tight,
flat, not Stieglitz
hands but eyes,
smile on the edge
of laughter, flat to sky
line on the edge
of vision. It rests
on the pastel blue edge
of laughter in pure light.
© Steven Schroeder

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