Alternative Paths

ALTERNATIVE PATHS
after a painting by Robert Chapla
poem by Sherry S.

Stare a while at this terrain.
Most eyes see a sunlit plain
where cattle roam. Psoriatics
who abstract from this graphic
spots of their own mottled skin,
thick with inflammation,
see psychic pain, best blamed
on fate. Add three cows who shun
the other one for a double illustration
of how an assumed path can be undone.

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