Page 19 - Reflectoem Magazine Issue 10

A Picture with shortages

there is nothing here, Master Breugel would

probably have painted some twenty

characters -

in the foreground three fishermen in a boat,

not counting a dog

under a tree a woman in a gray bonnet

cleaning fish

and a little boy rummaging in fish guts

I don't know where he'd put all those plowing,

hay-picking, nose-picking peasants

I’m sure they would fit somewhere, even as a

speck of sunshine on the opposite shore

and a leg would stick out of the water, or a

head would be smashed against stones in the

shallows

and everyone would know it was Icarus again

falling from the sky with the summer rain

Reflectoem Poems of Malgorzata Borzeszkowska 18