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Halo Effect
Protestant son
and grandson
of a minister
the mysterious
Van Gogh
hangs in the
air of the museum
like a halo
a fire image of
all-consuming love.
And in the real
world
cave by cave
Me Not Me
Me and other
world philosophies
painted stiffly
before daylight--
the coal miner
the weaver
the potato
eater
the idea of
originality
was
inconceivable in his century.
How can Yellow
be original?
The Bible’s
fundamental truth
is simple,
“From darkness to light,”
he said.
“How
beautiful is Yellow,” Van Gogh
discovered in
Provence.
Yellow is the
halo around all other colors.
Molting season
is the season of yellow--
when all our
hard times are shed
and we are
reborn, yellow feathers
at our feet.
From darkness to light—
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