thinking of vincent

[RiverNotch]

At first I agreed with Achebe, but I got over it, "full of dying / stars" robs it of an image. Fun fact: since it often takes thousands, even millions, of years for light to reach our planet, many of those stars may very well be dead, with only the images still living -- still dying. With the irony of Van Gogh not dying according to his season, the poem could be stretched to look at his paintings as said starlight...