PINK ANGELS BURSTING
I wonder what de Kooning was thinking
when he demolished his pink angels,
a failure of the writer most surely
when he needs to know the mind before the paint,
like watching the smoke rings of a treasured tobacconist
dissolved in a vat of acid: in mangled appetites,
a splintered swan failing to escape the bottom of the painting,
is that an eye by graceless clubfoot?
A bedroom eye in fitful spasms.
Those yellow whirling knives that cleave
and so abruptly bother
these angels of a most personal heaven.
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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