Camille on Her Deathbed
Claude Monet, 1879
Joseph R. Trombatore

The Dr. always showed up with dirty hands
during tea
things would move about his beard
ever so slightly

Tall rooms were fed with gold colored
wallpapers
paisley draped over chairs, bowl of goldfish
on the parlor table

His black bag bulged with cold instruments
bloody rags
from tenement, to a distant neighbor's
thoroughbred

The boys were outside, swimming like hungry
bees in pollen
Father was steadying his easel inside; tubes
of colors swirling

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