Art History Poem

Hello!
Last week I reached my 50,000 word goal for the month of November! To anyone else who participated in National Novel Writing Month, congratulations! This year, I wrote 50k words of poetry. On Monday, I started reading through and revising.

To be honest, most of it is garbage. But there’s a lot of stuff in there with potential. Such as:

November 6

Poem 9

Here’s what I learned in Art History:

A woman in a Renaissance painting has powdered white skin (no other color)

and never farts

or shits

or vomits after too much wine.

No one has to hold back her pompadour

while she pukes up her servant-made supper into a golden chamber pot.

She doesn’t do drugs or smoke.

Her somber expression pouts at the painters.

The world’s first selfies.

Now, I don’t agree with the last line even though I wrote it. The argument can be made that the world’s first selfies were actually cave paintings and little sculptures done long before Renaissance painting was a thing. Anyway, I’ve got LOTS of editing to do.

See you soon,
Eva Moe