Gallery talk

Manatee’s On Mushrooms

What would Martin Lewis make

Of your take on Shadow Magic, 1939?

Maybe muster a rejoinder to “that would be soooo awesome”

Booming round the gallery

“to draw that good”, uttered a full beat ahead of

“Museums pay real good money, but . . .”

Half beat, then the caveat

“Prolly only if you’re famous”.

Perhaps he would make an incisive

Argument on behalf of the finer points

Of intaglio to the pretty young girl

Trailing silently in your wake, only

Half-listening, lingering before Ha’nted, 1932

Hips canted, weight exquisitely meted to one leg

While you dismissed a Burchfield

In favor of greener museum grass in Chicago.

What would Martin Lewis make

Of your claim, hailed from the gallery

Rafters, that manatee’s at Shedd Aquarium

Are best viewed on mushrooms?