Picture Window

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 07, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture Window

Paul Manship’s living room
Carved vintage furniture
Grand piano and spinet
Evocative memorabilia
Chairs facing a
Picture window
View of one
Of two quarries
Butman and Cannie’s
It rained that first day
Gravely daunting
Growing more familiar
Three weeks in November
Till early December
Thanksgiving with Pip
First in decades
Family and friends
Old and new
Bright and clear
Unusual this year
A time of wonder
Shrouded in the
Mantle of Manship
Creative cocoon
Remarkable chrysalis
Incubating ideas
Thought taking flight
By the window at night
From dusk to dark
End of works and days
The never ending play
Of night and day
Each picture framed in
Manship’s window
A series like Monet’s
The lily pond
It was gloomy again
Our last day
Rained as we went away
Over A. Piatt Andrew Bridge
Melancholy journey through
Clouded mist of memory