You Thought that Life Meant Sitting for Velasquez

It seemed like mustering the force

and mastering its application

always drained the sap from fortitude

and tried what you believed was soul.

But with the three of you,

today, the whole became an easier

and freer thing, far less a matter

of exactitude than soft release.

And so you pose for us, together,

for a moment, in this unaccustomed

state of almost peace. It’s like

you thought that life meant

sitting for Velasquez but

the painter was Matisse.







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