Edward Hopper: A Day in His Life

Sun rays make the orange look red

Above the Sunday morning Barbershop,

Where Hopper gets his haircut every week.

A chair car, later, takes him through a road in Maine

Where mountains rise like hills with green

To jut out, crumble on the curves.

He arrives in town and walks past darkened yellow stoplights,

Norton’s Ice Cream, Candy, Drug and Soda shops,

Finally approaching the marquis of Circle Theatre.

Inside Hopper sees a New York Movie,

Fighting with his wife, who leaves to cry

On flowered carpet near red curtains.

They never see the ending as they leave,

With Edward passing Silber’s Pharmacy

And sighing to himself.

Angry, jaded, feeling famished

The Hoppers go inside a diner,

And sit across another Nighthawk.

Slouched with rolling eyes

His wife concludes the romance dead

Despite having rented a hotel room.

She reads there later on the bed in lingerie,

Bought for a special evening,

Not meant to be.