Poetry
PAINTED WINDOW

PAINTED WINDOW

VENTANA PINTADA

Phoebe Hering

Image: (after Andrew Wyeth’s Wind from the Sea)

Billow of curtain breathes. Evergreens

cut this nothing notion of temporality.

Monoseason: a lie whispered by pine

needles in their permanence.

The outside becomes an argument

of wall. Meadow in a roll

toward grasses fluffed golden

in the gloom—as if the everlast

of gray was neither ever

nor last. Call the darkness

on this side of window pane

something other than unknown—

a bed perhaps

laden with body,

skin puckering into question

of on whose behalf

this cold open blows.

Phoebe Hering is a 2016 graduate of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize. Currently living in southern France, she is pursuing an Erasmus Mundus joint masters in cultural narratives.

Andrew Wyeth was an American painter who both came into and left the world in the pastures of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. One of the most influential American painters of the 20th century, he was a member of the realist and regionalist schools of painting as well as the son of a prominent illustrator, N. C. Wyeth.  He painted his life and the lives of others that intersected his own. Wind from the Sea, painted in 1947, is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

David Noria studied Classical Philology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Modern Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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