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On the Seated Figure by Matisse

Christian Ward

I’d watch her wrap stillness
like a shawl around her body,
trying to keep every movement
warm, whilst waiting not for time
to end this session of ours
but for me to drop my brushes
and paint her from her lips
to her navel.

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