Take Me With You

by Lisa Molina

An Ekphrastic poem based on the painting “Wheatfield with Crows,” by Vincent Van Gogh, Netherlands, 1890

Oh, flying/floating/flockof crows
disappearing over the Rumpelstiltskin gold I see before me;
Are you real?
Why can you not come down to earthto take this
mind of visions which I never know to be real or imagined,
and carry it on your wings so that I may rise above this life
of dirt roads leading me to nowhere but madness?
I yearn tofly/floating/forever
above this
wearying/waning/world/within
up to the
swirling/spinning/golden/glowing/starry night,
my spirit absorbedby the silverglowing orb.

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