Gerald Locklin on the Other Side of the
The Summing Up
Ultimately,
When all is done and spoken of,
And you have come to the end
Of your sequence of poems
Which use as their starting points
The exhibition and catalogue for
Cézanne and Pissarro:
Pioneering Modern Painting,
1865-1885,
With deep gratitude to all the texts therein,
You page back through,
With the more innocent pleasure
Of the non-analytical or post-analytical eye,
And you realize you have
For all these days
Been gazing at some excellent reproductions of
Some very pretty, pleasing pictures.
© Copyright Gerald Locklin 2006