Noise in her Mind

I know her so well she came long ago to visit my being

we share beauty and bedlam boudoir and kindest of spirits

She walks like a cat woman hears like a bat feeds birds

quietly she soothes thunder's volcano howls with the wolves

Klimt's Kiss Vermeer's Girl With Pearl Earring Botticelli's Venus Degas's

Dancer In Repose Fedro's Much Better With Age she

absorbs pastel and paint strokes symphonies on canvas

so many facets big bangs and roaring giggling convulsions

Sometimes Woman Laughing from Goya's dark paintings

a Broken Column like Kahlo's when some Munch's Scream

invades and infests silence deep inside her beautiful scull

Voices shout from profuse directions focus condense and

refract confront tease torment disagree and interfere with

calm serene serenades when a few notes tender chords

and accord vanish into cacophonies misleading the song

I know her so well admire her resilience and how she copes

with the noise the disruption and the ballet of so many

different views pandemonious clangour onslaught of turmoil

as she appears calm on the surface orchestrates quiet composure

How she holds it all together I cannot really fathom with all that

jumbling distance so close and yet so far from my innocent mind

My Venus Of Milo has taught me so much most of it all and over

above that imperfection is a wonderful gift and very complete

© Kai Michael Neumann. Reproduced with permission.