On Painting by Julia Caroline Knowlton

I multiply weightless suns
on ocean horizons:
some watery as tears,

some sticky as blood.
My sable brush says
come nearer, rose tone.

Come blue me in flood.



Julia Caroline Knowlton teaches French and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. The author of five volumes of poetry, she has twice been named a Georgia Author of the Year in the poetry chapbook category. She lives in Atlanta and Paris.