A quartet of attractive peaches
Flattened in the modern style
Originating from Rio Cinca, Espana
We carried them into Camden
For a picnic with an Irish woman
Visting from Sligo but didn’t
Bite into them. We sat beneath
An unnamed tree switching
Benches as the sun pursued us
Around the circle
Like Matisse’s dancers
From the painting
He made for Sergei Shchurin
A Russian businessman
Who fled the revolution
And is buried
In Montmartre Cemetery
Alongside Edgar Degas
Vaslav Nijinsky and
Possibly, Olga Preobrajenski
Although her whereabouts
Is disputed
.
Steven Taylor