A to Z Blogging Challenge: H

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H is for Homage

Homage to the Square Josef Albers

 

Homage to the Square

at the Currier Museum, Manchester New Hampshire

It catches

my eye--perfect geometric,

a yellow square

with a uniform

yellow shadow.

I wonder that yellow

can be so obedient,

straight as

a number two pencil.

What keeps it from flying

off the canvas and landing

somewhere on the west wall

in a splat of sunlight?

Unbound, it could become

a canary,

or a bee banging

against the muted skylight,

hoping to flee

Euclidean geometry,

to molt

into spilt lemonade.