ekphrasic poem: art whispers

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Betrothed  by  Genevieve Fitzgerald

This ekphrasic poem is for Marc Chagall’s “Flowers and Feathers”

Even if I am an ugly duckling, I have taken to wearing the necklace you gave me.  It may look silly against my feathers, costume(custom) cut glass, and not really sapphire stones set like blue grapes in a gold vine pattern. But you wanted me to have it, you blue headed unicorn no one else thinks can be real. And though you frightened me at first, I have come now to want for us to be more than just dreaming on my part.

see the art:

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Marc-Chagall-(inspired-By)/Flowers-And-Feathers.html