Topsoil Partitur

By Vincent van Gogh - 1. Copied from an art book2. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9517105

The leaves of wheat attempt the melody

of lilting clouds on turquoise sky, the tune

of wind one’d bottle, sell as all of June—

only to crack on the loam, rattle the

worms so soft against digits

of exposed phalanges in the blind

of sun, who shines with no mind

to what notes our verdant instruments play.

This poem is an ekphrastic piece inspired by this Van Gogh painting from the National Gallery of Art. I decided to do another ekphrastic piece after reading Saint Trey Wooden’s prompt for today:

The Ekphrastic Poem