Then he wasn’t

He was the most Klimt  witted man I ever saw

His portraits were pointillistic

His fingers were long and pliant

His face a wire drawing of picasso in old age

His ears like two old beer mugs hung with multiple invisible rings

His shoulders  narrow,

his coat hung  off wrong;

dead cabbage leaves  in moonlight,  the effect

His body   shapeless,hidden

An old wooden peg, blunt.

Legs hidden like Victorian tables

Feet bare but well shaped.

Too many dots and no eyes.

He was all there

Then he wasn’t.

 

 

2 thoughts on “Then he wasn’t

  1. I like this – the human condition – all that complexity and then it goes…. I find it the disturbing feature of all life – one sees the fantastic complexity and perfection of a tiny creature like a mayfly; there just for a day and, probably, destined merely to feed a ‘higher’ creature!

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