Sleeping Gypsy by Bruce W Niedt
That peaceful painting,
Sleeping Gypsy, Rousseau
has split into a dream geometry
that fine black man, asleep
the folds of his robe
rainbow
along his body.
The staff and the
bent lute
lie with him
their length as his.
The moon and that moon-eyed lion
mane blown forward
snuffs at the gypsys side
his tail raised
like a curious flag.
-1971
10/01/2001 Posted on 10/01/2001 Copyright © 2024 Bruce W Niedt
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