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[image Georgia O’Keeffe, The Black Iris (1926), oil on canvas, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, gift of The Burnett Foundation: courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

 From the atelier window,

I looked out to be absorbed,

By an iris, an abstract work

Of God in the evening shadows,

A vanishing point of day,

Not just a sunset, but more so,

A polychromatic overlap of emotions,

This was the expressionism gift

That later artist would receive

© gillena cox 2025

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IN OTHER WORDS

We got paintings by Georgia O’Keefe 

as well as a selection of words to use in an ekphrastic poem.

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