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The poetic city: “While Driving to Work down Oak Street 6/11/12”

Sep 16, 2019 • Creative Writing, Parks and Outdoor Areas/Leisure, Places

Bruegel’s “The Fall of Icarus.” (Photo: Wiki Commons)

While Driving to Work down Oak Street 6/11/12

 
In Bruegel’s painting Icarus plunges to his death without a witness
Every one in the scene is busy with something else
Heedless of the tiny splash in the corner of the painting
No one sees the mythological drama taking place.
  
I drive to work down Oak Street with a million things on my mind
With all I have to do before time runs out
Unaware as Bruegel’s peasant plowing his field
Until jolted by the painter’s vision, I am rescued from oblivion.

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