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The Eternal Feminine: Paul Cézanne, 1875-77, oil on canvas, 43.5 x 53.3 cm (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
I knew the tune
It was my song
Even before you came along
Yet only then did I perceive its meaning
This you I wished for
This desired Other of whom
I spoke so glowingly in poems
I never knew its name
When I lifted its arms up
I noticed tiny wings
That’s all I knew
The rest was Muselike
Anonymous this “you”
So I guess those poems
Were like phonecalls to the future
I think I had your number
Knew what I was looking for
Even before I found it
In the face directory
And luckiest of all
Your human substance
Was life’s loveliest
Far as I could see
As if I’d placed
Bones and skin
Together in a dream
You were put together that way
But I wouldn’t let it go to my head if I were you
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The Bewitched Man [A Scene from El Hechizado por Fuerza]: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, c. 1798, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 30.8 cm (National Gallery, London)
The Eternal Feminine: Paul Cézanne, 1875-77, oil on canvas, 43.5 x 53.3 cm (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
I knew the tune
It was my song
Even before you came along
Yet only then did I perceive its meaning
This you I wished for
This desired Other of whom
I spoke so glowingly in poems
I never knew its name
When I lifted its arms up
I noticed tiny wings
That’s all I knew
The rest was Muselike
Anonymous this “you”
So I guess those poems
Were like phonecalls to the future
I think I had your number
Knew what I was looking for
Even before I found it
In the face directory
And luckiest of all
Your human substance
Was life’s loveliest
Far as I could see
As if I’d placed
Bones and skin
Together in a dream
You were put together that way
But I wouldn’t let it go to my head if I were you
The Bewitched Man [A Scene from El Hechizado por Fuerza]: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, c. 1798, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 30.8 cm (National Gallery, London)