The Common Good

Carol Hamilton

Articles by Carol Hamilton

Picasso Used a Pigeon
August 1, 2008

I expect the whitest dove,

purity as the Spirit breaks apart

firm blue of our ceilinged sky,

a tapered shape, an elegance.

But Picasso was right.

Goldfinch
August 1, 2004

He died in a munitions explosion,

the exquisite artist

who painted

the tamed bird, an irony,

as the arms were stored and stuffed