Idlers in the Galleryby Pamela Miller Ness and Michael Dylan Welch
Second prize winner in the 2004 Haiku Poets of Northern California rengay contest. First published in Mariposa #12, Spring–Summer 2005, page 24. Written by email from November 2003 to March 2004. Each verse is based on a painting in the National Academy of Design in New York City. See this ekphrastic rengay with the paintings displayed.
overflowing its cut-glass vase La Farge’s magnolia Pamela
Homer’s croquet player hides a ball with her skirt Michael
strewn across her studio table Nell Blaine’s turnips Pamela
the unused pencils . . . Jacob Lawrence grins in his self-portrait Michael
gathering hollyhocks Frieseke’s woman in blue Pamela
to the porch born . . . the precise signature on Blum’s two idlers Michael
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