À REBOURS [NOIR POETRY 106/365 + Septekphrasis 10/30]

[À REBOURS]

my eyes 

now closed 

cannot unsee 

what boredom  

has painted

in yours

. . .

Art: František Kupka: The Yellow Scale [self-portrait], c. 1907.

Poem also inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans' book À rebours.