“Untitled” by Lynne Knight

After Salvador Dalí’s Love’s Promise

Salvador Dalí, Love’s Promise, 1976, lithograph on paper

In old age

the painter
sees love

as the promise
of angels
in colors and shadows

Lynne Knight has published six chapbooks and six full-length poetry collections, most recently The Language of Forgetting (Sixteen Rivers Press). Her poems have appeared in many journals; among her awards are a RATTLE Poetry Prize and a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship. She lives on Vancouver Island.

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