Portrait of the French singer and actor Yvette Guilbert by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890 (Gary Bruder Fine Art).
Robert Creeley’s “Air: ‘The Love of a Woman’”:
The love of a woman
is the possibility which
surrounds her as hair
her head, as the love of herfollows and describes
her. But what if
they die, then there is
still the auraleft, left sadly, but
hovers in the air, surely,
where this had taken place?
Then sing, of her, of whomit will be said, he
sang of her, it was the
song he made which made her
happy, so she lived.
