Portrait of Ahaswer as a Young Man

Portrait of Ahaswer as a Young Man

Ahaswer looking down inclining inwards

in silver crown and golden earring,

voluptuous mouth reflecting full thoughts

in chestnut of light descending from the East

Through maroon background of curtain

featuring his pensive pondering head

in thinnest strings of threads

of young mustache and beard--

Spinning his face out of mind.

Xanadu (Ofmickiewiczfame) for Blogspot.Com (February 2016)

(Thanks to Maurycy Gottlieb his 1876 Ahaswer

in Sukiennice Muzeum Krakow and James Joyce)