Every Lily Donned with Grief
An ekphrastic dedication to Claude Monet
The Water Lily Pond, Claude Monet
With every deft stroke of the brush, Claude Monet strived to get closer, closer to the God in which he didn’t believe — reinventing his life on canvas
refracting light, channeling reparations, playing hopscotch atop water lilies with oils, composing 250 times, but never quite getting it right
the burning aura of cataracts …
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