|Poem| Sofa

 

Sofa

-- To “Young Woman on the Sofa” painted by Matisse (1944)

 

Window Where there is no window

Brain Brain All is futile Black hair

Both decent arms and legs A firm body

 

Yellow Red Black Vertically and horizontally

On the young woman in a room with lines flicking

 

Note on the Muse:

Matisse, the magician of colors, became wheelchair bound following his intestinal cancer surgery in 1941. He continued working on "cut-outs"(of pigmented paper), among others, till he died on November 3, 1954.

 

© Ryang Suh, MD 2023.11.03