Evening Meal

EASYSTREET PROMPTS

http://easystreetprompts.blogspot.com/2009/06/prompt-580-under-our-noses.html

publishes a very thought-provoking photograph.

Here is my offering on the same subject.

EVENING MEAL

When first I saw this picture I took it to be antique.

One quick glance made me think of an Old Master.

The hood? Surely a monk's! The crumbling 'Florentine' bricks!

The sense of ancient walls and crumbling plaster.

Then I saw the plastic bags, the modernity, though shabby!

This is no statue formed in alabaster!

I saw some modern agony, not picturesque at all.

Just a very humble intimate disaster.

More human tragedy here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/streaming.html