{"id":11740,"date":"2022-11-22T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11740"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:32:09","slug":"poem-the-poets-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/poem-the-poets-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The Poet’s Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I post my poetry here on my blog. I still have the painting mentioned in this poem, which is I am showing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poet’s Wife<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The poet’s tiny wife suffered from the cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I gave her my fiancé’s Chinese jacket,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It fit her but could not obscure her homeliness—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio—10\/28\/12<\/span><\/a><\/div>

none of the owner’s beauty transferred to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the studio sessions for her portrait<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the poet’s wife said, “The day I met the poet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cried on the museum steps knowing I would marry the stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>Thumbs-up: van Ruisdael; Thumbs-down: Renoir<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I didn’t want to divorce my husband and abandon my children.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s what she did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>Robert Smith<\/span><\/a><\/div>

When I finished her portrait,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said, “I didn’t think you could pull it off but you did.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>Dayton Art Institute—Fail<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I hung the portrait at Life Café at 10th<\/sup> and Ave B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dancing at the frozen bar on Saint Mark’s Place,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris<\/span><\/a><\/div>

She said, “Keep your hands out of your pockets the next time you dance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Poet’s Wife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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