Edward Hopper:
The Yellow House, 1923
This
one actually seems to be two houses,
Facing
in different directions, the way that,
In
Ulysses, Leopold Bloom and Molly
slept,
Foot
to face, which, it’s said, James Joyce himself
Slept
with Nora Barnacle.
The
Big Yellow House has two windows
With
the shades drawn on the second floor
To
resemble human eyes. The smaller house
Has
one window, like a Cyclops whose eye
Is
in the back of his head. At any rate,
these two
Structures
had both directions under surveillance,
And
a grizzly mouth, and a Tom Sawyer fence,
Behind
the smaller one.
Van
Gogh painted a Yellow House also, and
he did not
Give
it a Halloween face because he would probably
Have
welcomed the occasional visitor. But
they seldom
Came,
and Gauguin abandoned the sinking sanity,
And
we all know how that worked out, good only for
The
lucky few who snapped up the posthumous canvases
Before
the professional collectors came to their jaded
Senses
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