Green Linden Press

Music, Pink & Blue No. 2 by Georgia O'Keeffe

1918. There is a man in a canvas tent fevered, not knowing he will be the first to die on U.S. soil of H1N1, for now let him sleep, along the gentle ridge of the petal, is it a petal, swooning pink and purple, here is a hand holding a paint brush, a woman who will stay out of mental hospitals for another ten years. Here the turquoise center. Not one of Wilson’s fourteen points to end the War is here, not a minute of Congressional debate to enact daylight savings time. She wished she were a musician —that pure art— The blush of blue continues past the body, the droplets bloom from the coughing man, I too don’t know how to reveal what is inside a year, what to keep outside the frame, the surge upward,  the  strange  beauty,  the  music,    keep  going