Great Regulars: The loss referred to in the poem is both

of childhood innocence and what results when the painter imagines them, placing their image on canvas for others to write the stories they see, to interpret who they are.

Everyone can and should head for the St. Louis Art Museum to begin writing poems based on the paintings they see.

"The Day the Painter John Singer Sargent Came Around" By Peter Carlos

from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri Poets: Peter Carlos

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