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There was one missing from your bunch
The Asparagus by Tom Pow
In his final years, illness attended
the artist. His friends brought him flowers
and, in modest works, when free from pain,
he gave them his fullest attention. Each
became a study in concentration
and in the memory of paint: testament
to the moment. One instinctive still life
of that period is of a fat bundle
of asparagus, each stalk fleshily
overfed, ready for the kitchen.
The purchaser paid over the odds,
so Manet, in recompense, sent him
a small oil painting of a single stalk.
‘There was one missing from your bunch.’
Its body, pearly-grey as the belly
of a fish, lies inert on the marble top.
But its purplish tip curves gently up
in the way that a fish, brought to land,
will raise its head and gawp for life
though there is nothing that can save it.
28th April 2022
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From Seattle. Currently on a Sony a6000 and my lens of choice is a 1.8/24. Sometimes I use my iPhone. Started my photography project in...
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