Rapture - Laura Veirs

With photographs

And magnetic tape

We capture

Pretty animals in cages

Pretty flowers in vases

Enraptured

And doesn’t the tree

Write great poetry?

Doing itself so well

Do you blame Monet?

His gardens in Giverny

He captured

And lovely Bashō

His plunking ponds and toads

Enraptured

The fate of Kurt Cobain

Junk coursing through his veins

And young Virginia Woolf

Death came and hung her coat

Love of color, sound and words

Is it a blessing or a curse?

Enraptured