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Devine Lu Linvega

And Vermeer with his houseful of children
didn't paint some days, didn't even mix
powders or stretch canvasses, or clean palettes,
but hauled in firewood, cleaned out
a flue, repaired a broken cradle, remembering,
as he bent to his task, how light shone gold
on a woman’s flesh, and gathered
in drops on her pearls.

by Marylin Chandler McEntyre

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2 comments
Kartik Agaram

@neauoire Wow, this author doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia page.

cacher

@neauoire loved this one. I was mindlessly scrolling and started copying it to get my attention back.

Hand written copy of the poem quoted/linked by OP
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