A Picture Muses
(Inspired by The Kiss – Gustav Klimt)
In droves of rucksacks and trainers
they swallow the alchemy of primary colours,
the gold-leaf of free-flowing cloaks –
of lovers in manuscript mosaics.
Some hold hands, remembering sheets of
pollen and pistil, tremors of sated desire;
more ponder the fin-de-siècle spirit,
deboning bodies breathing the cosmos;
and for a few, I am a tick on a list,
a keyring, tote or coaster.
In the quiet of Belvedere, I sometimes
drift to the figures of my becoming –
artist and muse pooling superlative gold
on the studio floor.
Marie Studer is an Irish poet who published her debut poetry collection, Real Words with Revival Press (2023). She is widely published in journals and anthologies. She is a past winner of the Trócaire/Poetry Ireland competition and The Bangor Ekphrastic Challenge. Her poems have been placed in many competitions, most recently, The Denis O’Grady, International Poetry Competition.
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