The Liana's Way | 30 x 24 x 1.5 in | Acrylic on Canvas
Poem Written By Magdalena Munro | November 2018
The braided cotton
cradles a finicky flame
and wicks my fuel -
I fold into me like
cradles a finicky flame
and wicks my fuel -
I fold into me like
a suckling embryo
inside a skyblue foiled
gift-box and kick
gift-box and kick
off the top.
The waxy ribbon
unravels -
Wafts of cypress
and pine blow down
from the north.
An outstretched
wick curls through
alleys and pedantic
gardens
observes hungry
lovers beneath arched
bridges
exults in its witness
of a mouse clicking
into a dimesize tunnel
toward a hidden family.
Do you remember
Timothy Frisby?
A riddling
story I became -
Longing to curl
into a plush red
armchair inside
the sanctuary of
books with rats
lauding Proust and
punting Plato.
I searched in the
puffed tomfoolery of
twenty-five,
behind the locks and
dams I whittled into
prose and epithets.
A crackling decade inked
into the muddy banks of
our Mississippi.
Rearview years are a
thick liana swinging
from a groaning
crane waiting for
you to jump.
When bedding
memory, undress
her from above.
The mouse -
where did
she go?
I look down near a
flowering dogwood
to find a family of
mice that might
teach me the way.
unravels -
Wafts of cypress
and pine blow down
from the north.
An outstretched
wick curls through
alleys and pedantic
gardens
observes hungry
lovers beneath arched
bridges
exults in its witness
of a mouse clicking
into a dimesize tunnel
toward a hidden family.
Do you remember
Timothy Frisby?
A riddling
story I became -
Longing to curl
into a plush red
armchair inside
the sanctuary of
books with rats
lauding Proust and
punting Plato.
I searched in the
puffed tomfoolery of
twenty-five,
behind the locks and
dams I whittled into
prose and epithets.
A crackling decade inked
into the muddy banks of
our Mississippi.
Rearview years are a
thick liana swinging
from a groaning
crane waiting for
you to jump.
When bedding
memory, undress
her from above.
The mouse -
where did
she go?
I look down near a
flowering dogwood
to find a family of
mice that might
teach me the way.
