Boarding House Bedroom - After Vincent van Gogh I tell the widowed landlady, I’m an artist, and she rents me the room cheap. The colors for this room must be both bright and tranquil for me to feel alive, work round the clock in a fever. I choose yellow for the bed and chairs. Violet for walls, green for the window frame, a fence encasing light that leads to a view of the public garden where men and women stroll the lane surrounded by blue pines. I immerse myself for days, weeks, months, until a voice, a train inside my brain, rumbles through, rattles the pictures on the wall.
About the Author: Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in The Beatnik Cowboy, As it Ought to Be, Loch Raven Review, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, Bindweed, Fevers of the Mind, One Art, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.
Image Credit: Vincent Van Gogh “Bedroom in Arles” (1888)
As It Ought To Be 