Oil on canvas, approx. 46 x 63 inches. National Gallery, Prague.
the man's mind
stands out
and its covert assertions
for art, art, art!
painting
the the Rennaissance
tried to absorb
but
it remained a wheat field
over which the
wind played
men with scythes tumbling
the wheat in
rows
the gleaners already busy
it was his own:
magpies
the patient horses no one
could take that
from him
--William Carlos Williams