Pinacoteca di Brera
Façades of baroque or fresco-soaked plaster
hue chroma value systematically
requiring attention we are masters of
reticulated backgrounds plumes and a cape
Canaletto dresses selvedged with canal
wavelets and britches anklet fine rapine-like
features candour pure profoundness of cheekbones
illumine honed numinous disciplined
we’re sublimed your pleasure is mine fervidly
calm and futuristically ever so
revolutionary we’ll walk on dark
earth haughty andirons neoclassically
capricci sitters all Bacardi and Sekt
barely touching hands at the back of our work
Julie Hogg
Julie Hogg is published in many literary journals including Abridged, Black Light Engine Room, Butcher's Dog, Coast to Coast to Coast, Corrugated Wave, Honest Ulsterman, Irisi, The Morning Star, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Poethead, Poetry Birmingham, Popshot, Proletarian Poetry, StepAway and Words for the Wild. Featured in anthologies by Culture Matters, Dunlin, Listen Softly, Litmus, Zoomorphic and Seren, her debut pamphlet 'Majuba Road' is available from Vane Women Press.