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Saturday, July 16, 2016

THE ART OF PEACE

by Cally Conan-Davies

                     
Picasso, “Dove of Peace,” 1949. Source: “The Dove: Picasso and Matisse,” Lewis Art Café.


When Matisse

gave Picasso his last

fancy pigeon

he drew it

as though

it were a line in the wind

from which all things come

forgiven.


Cally Conan-Davies is a writer who lives by the sea.