I am a Painting.

I AM A PAINTING

   My life these days is like a pale gray room
   straight out of Vilhelm Hammershoi
   the Danish painter (early 1900s)
   inspired by pale gray rooms,
   half-empty landscapes, milky northern skies.

   He also painted people
   whose backs were turned to him
   and rooms with doors half-open at one end
   and unattended furniture.
   I feel like that, sometimes,
   until you speak, or sunlight suddenly changes.