{"id":2962,"date":"2017-02-23T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2962"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:08:46","slug":"neil-ellman-winter-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/neil-ellman-winter-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Ellman, Winter 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opalescence<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(after the painting by William Baziotes)<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the opalescence<\/p>\n

of my youth I knew<\/p>\n

the colorations of my life<\/p>\n

kaleidoscopic fragments<\/p>\n

of iridescent glass<\/p>\n

blue skies by day<\/p>\n

and yellow-red by night<\/p>\n

indescent bubbles,<\/p>\n

butterfly wings and fireflies.<\/p>\n

the scent of clear-blue air<\/p>\n

and taste of milky snow<\/p>\n

as if my world<\/p>\n

would never change<\/p>\n

and I would be<\/p>\n

forever a child<\/p>\n

in the grayness<\/p>\n

of my years.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Timelessness II<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(after the painting by Perle Fine)<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

After the game is over<\/p>\n

an exclamation point<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

after the search<\/p>\n

the journey ended<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

after the hunt<\/p>\n

with the prey in tow<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

after the shift of blue<\/p>\n

to a distant red<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

after the cold and frenzy<\/p>\n

of the final hours<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

there is only time<\/p>\n

without direction<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

only time<\/p>\n

out of sequence<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

only time<\/p>\n

without duration<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

only time<\/p>\n

without a point.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Timeless Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(after the painting by Kazuaki Tamahashi)<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It never ends, it seems,<\/p>\n

the irony of spring<\/p>\n

when the warm rains fall<\/p>\n

and the sun sends<\/p>\n

glowing particles of light<\/p>\n

to dust the leaves<\/p>\n

with amaranthine life.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Or so it seems<\/p>\n

from the Vernal Equinox<\/p>\n

through June<\/p>\n

the listless flowers bud<\/p>\n

and bleed a slow mortality.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even in a timeless spring<\/p>\n

the immutable rose<\/p>\n

grows old<\/p>\n

and withers on the vine.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0Neil Ellman, a poet from New Jersey, has published more than 1,350 poems, more than 1,000 of which are ekphrastic and written in response to works of modern art, in print and online journals, anthologies and chapbooks throughout the world.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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