ON WASSILY KANDINSKY’S PAINTING: “LITTLE PAINTING IN YELLOW”..........KATHLEEN SHAW

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On Wassily Kandinsky’s Painting: “Little Painting in Yellow”

Poem by Kathleen Shaw

Just before the Great War, Kandinsky took time to paint something yellow, something little, something that looked like nothing anyone had ever seen. How shocked they were– how outre to paint something so unwarlike, how perverse to veer from standards. Is that an egg? Is that a sun? Is that a cloud? Is that a mouth? Yes, yes, yes, yes and no, no, no, no, said Kandinsky, silently out loud, thinking, while not thinking of war.

Kathleen Shaw is a semi-retired assistant professor of English at a community college. She has had poetry published in Philadelphia Stories, Anthology magazine, Derail, Schuylkill Valley Journal and online journals. She is now in the process of completing her first novel.

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