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the edges you regret

Monet Refuses the Operation

-Lisel Mueller


Doctor, you say there are no haloes

around the streetlights in Paris

and what I see is an aberration

caused by old age, an affliction.

I tell you it has taken me all my life

to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,

to soften and blur and finally banish

the edges you regret I don’t see,

to learn that the line I called the horizon

does not exist and sky and water,

so long apart, are the same state of being.


excerpt from Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller


acrylic on paper


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