Almanac Poetry: Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
(after Arnold Böcklin)
The more I look
at what’s ahead,
the more I sense
who’s looming behind—
old fiddler Death
with a hideous laugh
playing me
to eternity.
Acknowledgement: first published in Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, UK, 2018.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by Arnold Bocklin, oil on canvas, 1872 .
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About
Kevin Densley is a graduate of both Deakin University and The University of Melbourne. He has taught writing and literature in numerous Victorian universities and TAFES. He is a poet and writer-in-general. His fifth book-length poetry collection, Please Feed the Macaws ... I'm Feeling Too Indolent, was published in late 2023 by Ginninderra Press. He is also the co-author of ten play collections for young people, as well as a multi Green Room Award nominated play, Last Chance Gas, which was published by Currency Press. Other writing includes screenplays for educational films.
(Disturbingly) fine painting, I reckon!