They only come alive when
you don't stand and look
but step inside them,

The Mona Lisa,
Guernica
The Birth of Venus
The Last Supper,
The Night Watch,
Whistler's Mother,
The Laughing Cavalier,
Van Gogh, self-portrait,
the man with one ear,

I'm here
inside them all
in some grandiose
scheme
or maybe it's just a dream.