not clear cut, but still . . .
Good Knight
Before you were memory longed for, you were “The Knight (Self Portrait)” 1951. No dot dot dots here. No loud, screaming colors. Just strokes of hues and some cross-hatchings. One hand is holding a shield which has captured three arrows, as the other hand rises a weapon above head, triumphant. Your hood is holding the half-moon of your face, of your grin, of your eyes – steadily – meeting my eyes, simply. Straight. Forward… Today, there you are, seeing into this me a decade before I would even be born.
After considering the painting by Roy Lichtenstein. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.5#
caren stuart is an award-winning intuitive poet, writer, artist, maker who lives in the wilds of North Carolina where she writes and creates daily. She’s curious and passionate about people, nature, and the arts in all of its forms. Her poetry has been published in more than fifty print and online journals and anthologies, including most recently Kakalak 2024 Anthology of Poets and Artists, Does It Have Pockets, and Collected Winning Poems of the Poetry Society of Virginia 2023. You can find her on Instagram as convolutednotionsbycarenstuart and on Facebook as caren stuart.