Carle Hessay Abstract No. 207 ("if you look closely")

Carle Hessay: Abstract No. 207 ("if you look closely")

if you look closely

eyes almost closed

hold your breath tight

start to hum silently

and sway, sway

just like a hemlock

in February wind

nothing may happen

but at least you'll know

you're on the right track

The poem, "if you look closely" by Gray Sutherland, was inspired by Abstract No. 207 and was published in For Kelly, With Love: Poems on the Abstracts of Carle Hessay (Treeline Press, 2014) page 64.