Monet probably had prosopagnosia
by Aaron Rabinowitz
She separates from the distance from the other moving forms across the canvas—you mean campus—like a sticker unpeeled from its backing and you want to believe you would recognize her from anywhere, the pitch of her walk the gait of her hair the strands of her voice. Experience teaches you not to call out, not to fill the silence with colour, you’ve done this with mixed results, shapes not sharpening but shifting, pools of paint pixelating. An emperor penguin parent must recognize their child’s call among 400,000 Antarcticans while you freeze standstill wait for your daughter, who comes from another direction, to reach you.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Aaron Rabinowitz’s debut poetry collection, Suggestions, is forthcoming from Gaspereau Press. He is the winner of PRISM international’s Creative Nonfiction Contest and Meridian’s Short Prose Prize. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Grain, The Malahat Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Fire, Queens Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Website: aaronrabinowitz.com
Instagram: @anotheraaronrabinowitz