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Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876)

This art inspired poem originally appeared on Bluesky in response to a #Paintku writing prompt: ‘Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette,’ a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876. Many thanks to Martina Matijević for this particular ‘madeleine’ which reminded me of Marcel Proust’s “À la recherche du temps perdu” – a magnificent novel that stands like a literary cathedral, and which took me twenty years to read (see here).

 

 

LES SOUVENIRS DE MARCEL

 

Every moment relived –

catching a cough

in a handkerchief.

 

 

 

See also, Leaf 151