Love the "reflection" poem on Escher! Here goes another one with a visual trick to it:
"Woman With Chrysanthemums," Edgar Degas
Here's a huge bowl of them, loud, massing their
weight against her; see how one paw of flowers
nears her, but fails to move the woman not
straight in her listening pose, abstracted air.
What glance she lets us see will not meet ours.
Ours wants to know her better, testing what
air she breathes, how her lips demonstrate
not hardness but hard patience. If it nears,
flowers to speech, will it seem worth her wait
there, what she turns to, what she almost hears?
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