Mark E. Hayes
GHOST
best-known among all the work
the flowers close vulvate intimate
harmonious arrangement of
color line and light and
dark this last something known
by the Japanese as notan you
will have to look it up I’m
afraid Georgia O’Keefe spent
time in many states Wisconsin
New York Illinois Virginia
South Carolina Texas
New Mexico Ghost Ranch
with Stieglitz taking photos
of his homely brilliant wife
such attention from him to her
such attention of hers on herself
the flower open peering out at her
the heart of her now posters and
screensavers and mousepads and
t-shirts and adorning every third
dormitory room and every tenth
sunny breakfast nook what would she
think she who longed for ever starker
landscapes ever more open spaces
—from Rattle #23, Summer 2005
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