Art History


  Marisol was one in the crowd of
  1960's beautiful people who always met
  in a certain bar off 8th Street to talk
  about what they were doing and what
  they were going to do, but most
  did nothing. Not so Marisol the shy
  beauty who made a world of
  'not pop, not op' for gallery shows


  You were the cutting edge but when
  art history gives a paragraph or page
  the game is over, yet you have a name,
  your agent finds collectors,
  you live on a fifth floor
  once a sewing sweatshop,
  your vivid party poster
  still framed on the wall


  You look at a portrait taken
  once ago, your aged eyes
  see your blush, then and now
  until you recall an afternoon
  at Sidney Janis, all the smiles
  and compliments and how fine
  your work, and it is the truth