Easter Sunday

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Still Life: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), c. 1955, oil on canvas, 35.6 x 45.7 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Someone has frozen the many-storeyed houses
Under this planetarium
A brilliant silence like a foghorn

A perfect frieze before the complications
Arrive with dialogue and
The olives of daily life

This brown Barcelona paper
Thrown onto the blue stone of the day
Makes everyone stop leaving

Through the light in a glass of wine you see them
Under the hot sky of the glacier
Placing their bets then boarding the funeral train

Still Life: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), c. 1955, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.6 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)