Heavenly precipice
Edward Hopper looks out
On his former haunt
In Massachusetts.
Odd, he thinks, to be
Humming the song with the name of that state
By The Bee Gees - the last song he heard before he died in '67. "What
The hell is that?" he wonders to himself. Jo, his wife and long-time diarist/accomplice, having joined
Him at God's left hand, can hear all his thoughts.
The spirit-realm confounds him as all is light; there are no shadows. Edward seems lost. No corners
No edges in the fog.
No solid-forms
No architecture
Except, perhaps, the Pearl-like gates themselves.
Edward finds himself
Longing for a hell
He'll never find -
Bound as he is to matronly strictures -
But he conspires to
Manifest a Christian Revelation:
A return to easel &
Brush;
A summer home
On Lake Afire.
-jim hill (1-13-2017)
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