Origami Sunrise

no, I said, she loved you very much.
take, for example, the painting by paul klee
in which two men meet, each supposing
the other to be of higher rank—
the first, ashamed of his youth,
the second of his culminated age.

After a childhood spent in Belgium and Germany, Collin Garrity moved to Asheville, NC to attend Warren Wilson College. He now lives in Savannah, Georgia where he works as a woodworker, and spends much of his time writing and admiring art.