Out of the shadows ...

I gazed at the Lady with Lizards - 

I was beguiled by her cool beauty, the mocking half smile about to part her lips -

Nearby was a self portrait of the artist - 

He looked like a lean condottiere - 

Each of his paintings held my gaze - 

The orchard with dark drowsy trees - 

The old men playing cards -

The soldiers frozen with terror in the Judaean hills - 

When I saw the painting called Death of a Peasant, my heart was wrung anew -

I was once more in the room with pale yellow walls - 

I touched my mother's forehead - 

I stroked her hair - 

Her cold head lay on the final pillow - 

12.02

Monday 20 August 2018

Henry Lamb: Out if the Shadows 

Exhibition

Salisbury Museum