Egon Schiele

This is sex known from Police photos,
while it was still alive. Uncured
persons attached to their ex votos,
because miracles are the only thing pure

that can happen with cadaverous flesh. .
Those are models to drive one out of town,
elbows, knuckle, and knee, that left the creche
of childhood, admitting with a frown

their body’s articulation. Why do
we do Death and the Maiden,so that she
is diseased, before Death has tattooed
her with invisible ink, and Schiele ?

Any beauty is from dried flowers,
or his wife Edith’s gaze of long hours.

Woodford Halse - 22 August 2025

Do I need to say anything more about the painter Egon Schiele ( 1890 - 1918) ? He and his wife both died of the so-called Spanish Influenza.