As He Looks At The Painting Poem by RIC BASTASA

for several years
there is one figure in the painting
that he cannot really understand
it is the woman with a glass
she is somewhere
in the middle
surrounded by her friends
all men
it is very suggestive
of someone inside
and yet so detached from all of them

maybe she is someone so different
but how different
she answers ' i do not know'

but really i know, i know
but i will not tell her, she knows too i know.