Keyholes

Translated by Leo Shtutin; Published in Tarot

Keyholes—

windows on the world entire:

Van Gogh landscape of Provence,

bare bulb swinging on its futile cord in the draught

that moves through

the blistering mansard hallway

where Van Gogh, ear despatched to the nearest brothel,

gazes into the iron sky.

To lean flush,

Gawk-eyed…