Émile Bernard, French
Fittingly, Tabitha Chose the First Day of the Wheat Harvest To Do a Little “Crop Dusting,” 1889
Oil on canvas
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/// From the name of this painting one knows
that a Wheat Harvest is what it shows,
but that’s not what I see.
The scene, (primitively),
depicts body bags lined up in rows.
/// What these four women do is opaque.
One bends down low, (my backbone would break).
One stands straight staring at
a third gal in a hat
as she wrestles a long brownish snake.
/// The fourth woman, for some reason, kneeled
while a cow munches grass in a field.
There are odd yellow forms
like shark fins seen in swarms.
A pink house and some trees are revealed.
/// But the strangest detail, on inspection,
is so small that it might miss detection.
In reverse, and in green,
the word EXIT is seen.
Upper right— might it be a reflection?