Cassidy on Claude

Monet? I do not care for...
His Rouen: Edgeless, flowing pastel dreams,
Soft strokes that hide the violence,
Burned in Rouen's pockmarked streets.
Drawing room decorations
Missing moulding walls:
Monet self-indulgence, no more!
He brings me to Rouen?
I take him to task,
Aubergine,Claude, Aubergine!
Breathe another light more darkly.
Let the sun go down in purples.
Let shadows of that wooden pyre
Silhouette Saint Joan upon your walls
In flaming orange and audace.
Make your pink: Flesh Raw Umbers.
Darken England's deed
In da**ing Gentian violets