Miro, Miro, On The Wall Poem by gershon hepner

Miró, Miró, on the wall,
Who’s the fairest of them all?
In all the land though there are lots
who're fair, your lines connecting dots
declare the deepest mystery,
and when the rest are history,
Picasso, Balthus, even Dali,
you'll triumph at the grand finale,
a man with many parts to parse;
your canvases are dense but sparse,
and as your image is reflected
we feel our own is there inspected,
just like a mirror on the wall,
excluding none, reflecting all.

Inspired by an encounter with Joseph Schildkraut, Professor of Psychiatrye at Harvard University and one of the world’s leading experts on the art of Jean Miró. Schildkraut is a brother of my cosmic twin, Shelley Gornish, who was Zachary’s godfather.


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