"Little Night Music"

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Tributes

by Jeph Johnson

 

Uprooted and almost out of season
He winds upstairs, searching

 

Shedding seeds instead of sunlight
Waking youth from room to room
Flaunting debutantes
Who suck the salt from his shell
Then spit across the crimson carpet
Instruction-
Education-
Developing the undeveloped

 

This morning it’s music to him

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by Dorothea Tanning's painting "A Little Night Music", circa 2004 

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