Caravaggio's St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness*

Warm red cloth against voluptuous young skin 

A ghostly gray white draped in fur and scarlet.

Curled hair the color of deciduous oak leaves 

Surrounds the sculpted beauty of a face distant

as desirable. 

The pure face looks down, 

the fragile wooden cross in his right hand.


*Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Museum of Art


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