Salina

She’s puzzling over me

this man she’s never met

sitting across from her

at the Thanksgiving table

 

What does she see? I wonder

in me? I am so unmysterious to myself

but to her perhaps a bit of a riddle

even beyond who’s here with whom

 

Artist:

John Ahearn (American, born Binghamton, New York, 1951)

Date:

1982

Medium:

Painted cast plaster