Ekphrastic

Die Muhle Brennt--Richard by Richard Matthews When the red chair suspended in air

M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine

Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams According to Brueghel

Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke We cannot know his legendary head

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

The Mad Potter by John Hollander Now at the turn of the year this coil of clay

The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden She looked over his shoulder

War Photograph by Kate Daniels A naked child is running

Photograph of People Dancing in France by Leslie Adrienne Miller It's true that you don't know them--nor do I

Stealing The Scream by Monica Youn It was hardly a high-tech operation, stealing The Scream.

Museum Guard by David Hernandez My condolences to the man dressed

The Painting by John Balaban The stream runs clear to its stones;

Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat) by Martha Ronk Why knowing is a quality out of fashion and no one can decide to

The Family Photograph by Vona Groarke In the window of the drawing-room

Joseph Cornell, with Box by Michael Dumanis World harbors much I'd like to fit inside

The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles] by Homer Thee, welcome, goddess! what occasion calls

Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri When we had crossed the threshold of the door

Seeing All the Vermeers by Alfred Corn Met Museum, 1965, the first

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell See with what simplicity

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats My spirit is too weak—mortality

To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats Haydon! Forgive me, that I cannot speak

On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery by Percy Bysshe Shelley It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky

On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art by Frank O'Hara Now that our hero has come back to us

The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans

The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat] by Adriano Spatola The wonder the sense of lacquered objects

All those Attempts in the Changing Room! by Anne Stevenson Look for me

In a Blue Wood by Richard Levine The couple in Van Gogh's blue wood is walking