MUSEUM VISIT

The kind of art I like is the sort
where the name escapes me—
not only the artist’s, with his afterlife—
but of the piece itself, and of the subject,
“trees and fire, a half-finished child,”
words rejected by my conscious mind,
intoxicated by the existent thing
that the other tourists pass by, embraced
by other universes only yards away. 

 

By Heidi Turner