Flower

By Tanya Fenkell

 

I want to paint this flower,

make you fall

into its centre,

feel its velvet depths,

ludicrous softness, the

headiness of scent,

 

blooming as if

it’s normal

to explode all restraint,

resonate with colour,

clamour, break out

that indecently.

(Dripping iris, rose in the rain.)

 

Perfumed and careless, this

flower vibrates in a reckless palette,

throws herself open,

uninhibited, inside out and

surrendering, exuberant

for a moment and

then, wilted,

gone.

 

My painted flower,

pale echo, will

remain.

Tanya Fenkell is a Canadian artist and writer who lives in Toronto with her husband and three sons. She holds a BA in English Literature from McGill University, an MA in English and an MIS from the University of Toronto. As an artist, she is interested in solitude and solitary spaces in the natural world. Tanya has been published in a number of small journals and shows her paintings regularly in Ontario. She had her first solo exhibition in 2022 at the Art Gallery of Bancroft.

Website: Tanya Fenkell

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