Incident in a framing store

It was a painting
of a Glengarry cow.
The artist, who may be here tonight,
had rendered it from the side
with her own unique vision
the way Van Gogh did.
Price: $320, sturdily framed.

Into the store
which has long since vanished
came, breathless,
a young woman.
“I got your call.”

“Yes,” said the proprietor.
And pointed dramatically
to the latest
framed pencil-signed
every-blade-of-grass
hyper-photographic
limited edition reproduction
of a foraging racoon

“Number 3407 of 4500–
a good number:
only eight-fifty,
beautifully framed.”

“I’ll take one,”
said the breathless woman
and forked over $850
plus tax.

The cow’s udders
hung, massive,
reproaching the farmer
who was elsewhere occupied.

The voice of the poet

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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
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