Pissarro

Streaming waterfall

Bright Pissarro's beard flows

Down his chest his brown smock

Like cliffs behind the white bristle

His mouth turned down dark red

Suggestion of a hole beneath

Hair that defines existence

In old age eyes circled in a depth

Peering above glasses display

Vulnerability surrender fear

Ravage that deprives the self

Of strength of assurance 

Confidence that canvassed

Grand boulevards of Paris

Haystacks as impressions

Women naked yielding to a

Manhood itself now yielding  

As approaching death stops

Momentarily balked by beauty in

An artist's face

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