(after Joan Mitchell)

 

 

Attracted

            to repulsion

a couple

 

of arms flurry

behind hot-sauce

windows

 

blue cap

-sizing

red

 

all mirrors

are deadly

because they ask

 

which one

which one is

you

 

above smoke

blue

raised brows

 

 

(“Black Painting #11: Duel” from Serious Pink, a collection of ekphrastic poems, by Sharon Dolin © 2003.

With permission of the publisher, Marsh Hawk Press, all rights reserved.)