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self-portrait: rembrandt van rijn (detail)
a day
trip to Miami
by
Norman J. Olson
first
floating
like
some weightless
mirage,
five miles
up…
then riding the bus
to
South Beach
to
me
that Rembrandt
would
have
enjoyed
the faces
of
businessmen
etched
against the bright daylight
of
the airplane window…
would
have understood the woman with tangled hair…
and
the damp pastel
decay
of Miami
would
have wanted
to
draw
the
wrinkled face, the gray
hair
and old blue eyes,
reflected
in
the dirty glass
of
the Miami
Metrobus
window…
~
first published in Poetry Repairs
