By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
GHOSTING SALLY FAIRCHILD
What a ghost of a woman!
That Sally Fairchild, with hand raised to chest
as if poignantly aghast at the very sight
of her own faded rendering,
a noticeable accompaniment on the ring finger,
so there is that limited certainly,
but the thickets already seem to be gripping at apparitional days,
a loosening auburn bun swallowed up in blushing blues,
rimmed day hat, much the same:
perhaps, it is that maniacal jungle of colour
all around her, swirling spiked monsters
jumping out from a forgotten child’s scary closet –
what was John Singer Sargeant thinking?
No woman wants to be painted like that.
As if she is disappearing right out of existence.
Vanishing before everyone, even herself.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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