The SleepingI have imagined all this: In 1940 my parents were in love And living in the loft on West 10thAbove Mark Rothko who painted cabbage roses On their bedroom walls the night they got married. I can guess why he did it. My mother’s hair was the color of yellow apples And she wore a velvet hat with her pajamas. I was not born yet. I was remote as starlight. It is hard for me to imagine that My parents made love in a roomful of roses And I wasn’t there. But now I am. My mother is blushing. This is the wonderful thing about art. It can bring back the dead. It can wake the sleeping As it might have late that night When my father and mother made love above RothkoWho lay in the dark thinking Roses, Roses, Roses. Lynn Emanuel
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This quote from the poem "The Sleepy" by Wallace Stevens is a beautiful example of how art can connect to us at a very personal level. In this case, the poet's parents, who died in 1940 at the time of his birth, are brought back to life in the form of his mother, who was sleeping while his father painted the roses on her bedroom wall. Through this simple idea of art taking us back in time, we see how powerful art is and how it can change our lives.

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