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Susan M. Williams Sensazione Somewhere, a painting looks back at you with a blank expression. Did you hear that? It whispers, peering around the room. Leonardo da Vinci’s face appears in a cartoon cloud beside the canvas. His Italian lips form the word sensazione and the sound of syllables noodle around the fork of your brain, still trying to make sense of a talking painting. The sleuth. You step back, taking it in, while it studies your lines, your hues, its guess for what’s beyond the edge and then someone else creeps into the frame, reaching for da Vinci, reeking of oxygen. ©2008 by Susan M. Williams Susan M. Williams' poetry has appeared in Slow Trains twice before. She's honored to experience art with others through her volunteer docent work at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.

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