Kit Kelen #1052 - (ekphrastic) - afternoon sun in 1897 - Pissarro's 'Boulevard Montmartre'

1052
ekphrastic
afternoon sun in 1897
Pissarro's 'Boulevard Montmartre'


two months
all times of light
carriage blur
hats stay affixed

every one of these windows
a fire to warm, some drama
up over the street

the boulevard is a vanishing mirror
time takes the far few there
as if to peace

where time is left
by way of the canvas
the colour, the oil

neither work nor play
but rolling out the century
foot by footfall

hats off passing
and under a familiar face

from a room in the Grand Hotel de Russie
two months – one mirror from the street
you wouldn't know what went on there

it's not the chimneys make these clouds
although they point that way