Black Noise In Her Mind

I know her so well she came long ago to visit my being we share beauty and bedlam boudoir and kindest of spirits as she walks like a cat woman hears like a bat feeds birds quietly and soothes thunder’s volcano howls with the wolves Klimt’s Kiss Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring Botticelli’s Venus Degas’s Dancer In Repose Fedro’s Much Better With Age she absorbs pastels and paint strokes on symphonies’ canvas so many facets big bangs and roaring giggling convulsions Woman Laughing from Goya’s dark paintings a Broken Column like Kahlo’s when some Munch’s Scream invades and infests silence deep inside her beautiful skull Voices shout from profuse directions focus condense and refract confront tease torment disagree and interfere with calm serene serenades when a few notes tender chords and accord vanish into cacophonies misleading the song I know her so well admire her resilience and how she copes with the noise the disruption the ballet of so many different views pandemonious clangour onslaught of turmoil while she appears calm on the surface orchestrates quiet composure How she holds it all together I cannot nearly fathom with all jumbling distance close to distortion and yet so far from my innocent mind but My Venus Of Milo taught me so much most of all and over above that imperfection is a wonderful gift to respect share with my soulmate and lover and is sound and complete Revised and changed title 27th May 2018