marc chagall's equestrienne
don't eat that violin
painted in 1933
like something dreamt
strange&mysterious
chagall's imagination
full of color&movement
a celebration of paints
strange images
a horse eating a violin
dreamlike vision
melancholy&delightful
emotional& poetic
some ridiculed it
he kept painting
&became famous
Out on the heath hies a lady in white,
Riding a giant toad;
Who is that woman, luminescently bright,
Spurring her steed on the road?
West Country witch whom, legends recount,
Transformed her man with a spell:
Cuckolding lover, she made him her mount—
Unclad, she straddles him well.
Reptile croaking along on the path;
Lady, equestrienne witch,
Whacking his scaly skin with a lath,
Hopping each brook and broad ditch.
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