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Smiles at mountains
In the kitchen, a man washing up,
the window over the sink
with dusk half-light outside and half
from up and behind holds the man in its pane
ghosted over the mountains he once roamed,
while in the next room his guests,
seated, are conversing.
The man quietly steps out the back door
into an early evening shower, away from all chatter.
Unlike men who talk only to hear themselves,
this is a man who smiles at mountains
and turns his face to catch the rain.
When this man who smiles first reached
for thoughts to defeat the darkness
it was to village basements he went
where books, from the homes of people
who no longer cared for them, got sold.
There waited a women who was at one with books
and, tired of the odor of boiled potato and mildew,
hungered for the quiet smell of trees and rain.
And when a man who smiles
meets a woman who hungers
together they think to leave the village.
In the city they go to, to get lost in,
there are no mountains
and you dare not turn your mouth to the rain.
Soon the man and the woman return, as close
as close they dare, to the constant hills and open sky,
for the part of him that is wild
the man has learned to hide when it must be hidden,
and the woman has learned to not try
to solve the mystery of who he is,
for she has found who she is and always was.
And at times, deep in the night,
when all the lights are off and the flames are banked,
the man wakes to sit close by a window
where he listens and looks and wonders
does he belong somewhere else.
And the woman, who long ago
met him in the basement, quietly joins him
and holds his hand as he sits
looking out at the hills and the stars.
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When my father
Here I stand
Postcard 1943
Smiles at mountains
Saving the roses
Guy time
Real Estate
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Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints
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