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           Fine Madness, Issue 25, Fall 1999

Photo of poem in Fine Madness literary journal, 1999. Amy Poague (author), "How My Heart Flutters When I Rejoin You in the Painting, Love" (Title). After "Blue Interior with Two Girls by Henri Matisse." 1st stanza: The window / is wide open, she said--our reprieve / from the blue that will come to comb / our hair until we sleep / deep into the afternoon. / She added, Turn around, see how it opens / on a world more green / than ours. / (his face was blocked from view). Stanza 2: Her hands were busy supporting / her offhand chin. / She had forgotten she was in the picture. Stanza 3: She was lost in her seventh museum / couldn't see the face of the second figure. / He was obscured by foliage / the woman figure had uprooted, a conspirator / in the killing business. Stanza 4: Her nerves were dead vines. / She pinched herself to remember / her body. / (sometimes these things begin all at once). Stanza 5: All at once she had never / forgotten the window... (continues)

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