"Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris ...it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of... lamps as angels, to soften... blur and finally banish the edges... to learn that... the horizon does not exist and sky and water, ...apart, the same state of being. Fifty-four years before I could see Rouen cathedral... built of... shafts of sun and now you want... ...youthful errors: fixed notions of top and bottom, ...wisteria separate from the bridge... Houses of Parliament [that do not] dissolve ...to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I will not return to a universe of objects that don’t know each other, ...The world is flux, and light becomes what it touches, ...so quickly... it would take... ...my brush to catch it. To paint the speed of light! ...shapes, these ... burn to... change our bones... to gases. how heaven pulls earth... to claim this world, blue vapor without end."
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Lisel Mueller
(born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the , Elmhurst College and . She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. She received awards including the in 1981 and the for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet a
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