G. E. Schwartz | Yellow Lantern

Yellow Lantern, 2018, Oil on linen, 87 1/2 x 108 inches, Suzan Frecon (b.1941)

YELLOW LANTERN

for Suzan Frecon

I stand before Suzan Frecon’s

Yellow Lantern and my heart

falls into small pieces, shards,

splinters with OTHER summers

before the eye, though it be

on canvas only. My heart

being a revolutionary fool,

a holy fool, falls, into shreds,

as blood pumps, defiantly some-

how through the conduits of

memory, Yellow Lantern. here,

now, THAT taste of our past

on the tongue, like lemon, like

light.

 

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G. E. Schwartz, author of Only Others Are: Poems (Legible Press), Thinking in Tongues (Hank's Loose Gravel Press), World (Furniture Press), Murmurations (Foothills Press), and the forthcoming The Very Light We Reach For (Legible Press), lives and writes in Upstate New York.