Kerima Swain – Lady at the Gable Mansion
$510.00
Initiator Artist: Kerima Swain
Artwork Title: Lady at the Gable Mountain
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Medium: Oil Paint
Price: $510
Responder Author: Alfred J. Garrotto
Writing Title: Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Price: $10
‘Lovely lady dressed in blue… teach me how to pray….’
Why now this childhood prayer to Mother Mary? ….
Why this charade, playing the contented wife… posing in blue discomfort for a portrait destined to adorn… what? A stairwell wall?… Let the artist portray instead my dreary nights of tearful misdirection… faded dreams of love and contentment in the arms of a— What does it matter? … Dare I complain… and who might listen to a woman adorned in silk from breast to toe? …
‘Lovely lady dressed in blue teach me…’
To pray? … Too late… to smile… and play today the contented bride offering feigned sweet pleasure… as I have these decades past… knowing he came to my bed… direct from youthful flesh… his desire unsated… needing affirmation to boast over poker hands his undiminished manhood….
“Lovely lady dressed in blue”…
Teach me how to play… from year to longer year… this numbing game of status over happiness… until death—his or mine—does
us part.
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