Dream Journal

1/17/2017

I wonder if Vincent Van Gogh kissed every iris he painted
or if he mistook the mouth of his brush for love.

How much pain he must have been in.
The anxious letters he wrote to his brother, begging.

To have such vivid, swirling dreams
It must have hurt to so desperately to grab out
and ask the night sky what it meant.

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Dorothy Sjoholm

1/26/2017 06:56:45 am

As a lover of Van Gogh's art, and someone who has read Vincent's letters to his brother Theo, I find this poem incredibly moving. It obviously came from that place where all good poems originate. As Leonard Cohen once said, "If I knew where it was, I'd go there more often." I don't know how often Adrian Novy goes there, but she certainly found it this time.

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