Vincent
written by: Mihaela Melnic
You had come into the world
to give your shirt to the poor
and your colors to the rich
to quarrel with Gaugain
and love an unfortunate woman
while painting blue irises
and dying sunflowers
then you were gone
leaving the canvas blank
and the chair empty
vanishing in the shadows
of your restlessness
with an ear cut off
and a hole in your belly
abandoning
all the madness
they had attributed you
yet, your reasoned insanity
bites my mind
spasmodically
centuries away
Mihaela Melnic lives and writes in Rome, Italy where her prose and poetry evolve and take different shapes with every new life experience. Her work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including Spillwords magazine, Lothlorien Poetry journal and Ariel Chart journal, both online and in print. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collection "Change of Seasons" and her latest work "Evermore", was co-authored and released in September 2021 through 17Numa Press.
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