Gril Standing by an Open Window

some years ago, I wrote a series of poems about the paintings of the Dutch painter, Vermeer. I plan to put them on on my blog. I hope you enjoy them. Laurel

Girl Standing by an Open Window

                                         and Vermeer  

Reading a letter

Looking onto sunlit streets

Of Delft.
What news?

Not joy

For she is serious.

No lover's smile upon her lips.

Does he write he cannot meet her?

Maybe he does not love her.

Whatever it is

Vermeer does not say.

He was more interested

In light and shade

His sensuous colours

luminosity of paint

than the contents of a letter.

 

 

Joe Hennessy builds Walara, a sheep statiion for his  family in the harsh environment of the Gascoyne district of Western Australia.

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