Gauguin’s Maiden
by Dan Raphael
www.dissidentvoice.org
January 15, 2006



 

In my eye of mind,

Small-sail sloops and palmfrond trees

Ring the sugar blue sweet sea

Like colored shells on circled throat --

Tahiti maiden, golden find.

You are, remain, more than real to me,

Surpass enough, create a languid sea

Of metaphor within which drench

My skin, a jagged island sun,

No manner water give, can quench.
 

Dan Raphael has been an activist since the Vietnam War was heating up and is active with the Green Party of the United States.

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