Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Evening Meal

EASYSTREET PROMPTS
publishes a very thought-provoking photograph.


Here is my offering on the same subject.


EVENING MEAL


When first I saw this picture I took it to be antique.
One quick glance made me think of an Old Master.
The hood? Surely a monk's! The crumbling 'Florentine' bricks!
The sense of ancient walls and crumbling plaster.
Then I saw the plastic bags, the modernity, though shabby!
This is no statue formed in alabaster!
I saw some modern agony, not picturesque at all.
Just a very humble intimate disaster.


More human tragedy here:


1 comment:

Kat said...

the pain captured so well

I saw some modern agony, not picturesque at all.
Just a very humble intimate disaster.


felt sad reading.