I fill a cornucopia 
with leftover thoughts that I can pull out 
like gift-wrapped Belgian bonbons, my mouth full 
against oncoming daylight, my paintbrush poised 
to let my whole body onto the canvas, casting new planets 
		to play in the rift. 

*Publisher’s Note:

Links below were retrieved on 13 March 2025.

Cool White (oil painting, 1959) by American Abstract Expressionist painter Lenore “Lee” Krasner (1908–1984) is held by the National Gallery of Australia and may be viewed online at WikiArt:
https://www.wikiart.org/en/lee-krasner/cool-white-1959

For an Artist Spotlight, see “5 Fast Facts: Lee Krasner” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts:
https://nmwa.org/blog/artist-spotlight/5-fast-facts-lee-krasner/

For more comprehensive information, see Lee Krasner: Living Color at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain):
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/lee-krasner-living-color

Barbara Krasner

holds an MFA degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Caesura, Cimarron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Main Street Rag, Nimrod, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in New Jersey.

Author’s website: https://www.barbarakrasner.com/

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Six prose poems by Barbara Krasner in The Mackinaw (10 February 2025): “Kintsugi”; “The Memory Collectors”; “Shock”; “Alphabet Vulgaris”; “Perseus in the Fourth Grade”; and “Blades of Memory Grass” (after Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World)

⚡ My Mother Could Write Lines for Fortune Cookies by Krasner in ONE ART (19 October 2024)

⚡ Author’s Interview with Barbara Krasner by Mirta Ines Trupp in her blog (7 April 2021)