This poem is taken from Stand 238, 21(2) June - August 2023.

Jana Harris Two Poems
The Horse Fair, poems on the life and art of French animalière Rosa Bonheur (b. 1822) is part psycho-biography, part speculation and part intuition. These linked dramatic monologues probe themes of gender, class, and artistic genius against the background of 19th-century Paris and
its environs.

The following poems are from section II: The Grammar of Art, Paris 1839-41


Cherries
Rue des Tournelles, Paris 1835
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