Wednesday, February 10, 2016

A Poem by Karla Linn Merrifield


Another Ars Poetica

It started with Picasso's La poete mirroring her bad acid-trip

           mood.
A Baudelairian butterfly sipped from folds in the gray fleurs du mal--
           mind
set to acquiescence, heart beaten to Chopin's funeral march in Opus 35,
           soul-
succumbed; but she learned junkets to Cuba don't make a Cubist of a spongy
           disposition.
She ends up back in Miami in mixed media, content to imitate art, whatever.




A nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had over 500 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies.  She has eleven books to her credit, the newest of which Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing), a sequel to Godwit:  Poems of Canada (FootHills), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry.  She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye (www.centrifugaleye.com), a member of the board of directors of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), and a member of the New Mexico State Poetry Society, the Florida State Poetry Society, and TallGrass Writers Guild.  Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet, http://karlalinn.blogspot.com




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