Argument

I am rather strangely preoccupied with ekphrasis, and equally but less strangely preoccupied with the poet Elizabeth Bishop. This is my attempt to paint one of her poems. My fondest artistic aspiration is to put on a show one day that hangs poems next to paintings. Perhaps it will be called "Ekphrasia." Or not.

Days that cannot bring you near 
or will not, 
Distance trying to appear 
something more obstinate, 
argue argue argue with me 
endlessly 
neither proving you less wanted nor less dear. 

"Argument," Elizabeth Bishop

(Acrylic, 9x12)