the high walls of this great room are filled with faces <br />brushwork portraits in chipped leaf frames <br />painted memorials <br />alarum-hung <br />on a faded backdrop <br />a bottle-green facade <br />to contrast with <br />those people from the past <br />they spook me out! <br />how can you say <br />they are beautiful <br />when all that they are <br />are ash and bones? <br /> <br />October 2004<br /><br />Penny Hemans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aberdeen-art-gallery/
