Apple Haiku
In a housemaid’s gaze,
the apple, peeled and quartered —
no evil, just good.
©elsp 2025
I was particularly struck, not just by the concentration in this young woman’s face and demeanour, but by the notes on The Met website (see link in Source in the caption above). The painter Nicolaes Maes deliberately veered away from norms at the time to give his subject dignity and nobility. It feels to me that the warm colours he uses to encircle her are like a spiritual embrace.
There IS dignity and nobility in the everyday.
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