At the Guggenheim Modern Art Retrospective: Laughter

The color spills from the canvas

Into the stark white

tucked-in corner of the great museum.

Buoyed upon this current of color,

and playing within its flow

Comes laughter: joyous and gentle.

Does no one else hear?

This Maypole whirlpool

Of a happy moment

Sweeps me along,

Woos me

In the shoe-shuffling,

Mouth-muffled quiet

Of the great museum

Into laughter of my own.

Visitors’ eye whip-flick in my direction.

I am standing quite still

In a stark white tucked in corner

of this great museum,

Yet I am far away in time and place.

I am with the artist on a very good day,

A day full of laughter, light and color.

The smile on my face lifts like a hot air balloon.

I am completely free and spinning into joy.

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