Sweet Cherry Bacchanal (1919)

Remember back, in February, I wrote about a couple of challenges I was using as an excuse for staying indoors and out of the rain?  Here are the results - one today and one tomorrow.

For the Off The Rails Arthouse exhibition on People Eating, the challenge was to write a poem in response to a selection of photographs.  I was immediately drawn to this one -

     Sweet Cherry Bacchanal (1919)

three

perching

on careful cushions

mime

eating cherries

two

sculpted 

upright as trees

Adam's rib's

ribs encased in corsetry

whale's bones

on a dry-as hill

one

splayed

head thrown back

pale forearms bared

cherry-picking memories

of arm-flung comrades

in mud

one

unseen

behind the camera

the fourth of the revels

Banquo at the feast

in that year like a poem

to Janus

(And tomorrow, something completely different ...)