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Letter to Holbein, the Younger.(Poem)
LETTER TO HOLBEIN, THE YOUNGER Holbein, how is it your Last Supper Compels me so? I'm no believer but I Look and, somehow, it doesn't really matter. Your worn blue sheet of Heaven stills on In its dusk, chilling to a cobalt night Not yet quite attained. I almost feel the breeze Fingering the branches outside the rear Window as it rises up from behind Over the table and its starched cream cloth That glows exactly off-white, still showing Creases from the iron's anachronism, as The hubbub rises, as the faces act out Their dramas, trapped in paint's unyielding stage, Apostles whose very names I now know Only approximately. Is that Judas Nursing his hatred like an over-priced Drink in a posh bar? Is that one there ...
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