The Sunday Poem: The Genius Explains Painting
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Feb 112007
“Everyone has an art,” he said.
He dipped his paintbrush into the oils
And dabbed red onto the soft bristles.
“The thing is, not everyone has a canvas,”
and he dabbed some red onto me.
“But they really aren’t hard to find.”
And I didn’t dare move for fear of smearing.
He was a whirlwind, and his strokes
licked my face and slapped my arms,
until there I stood, a statue of paints,
caked and crusted. Then he took my hand,
saying, “This is painting, and this is art,”
and I stepped out of the shell of dried paint.
After some hours flaked it to nothing,
I was nothing but the space where I had stood.
5 Responses to “The Sunday Poem: The Genius Explains Painting”
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Fame is fleeting, eh?
It also reminds me of what an old guy once told me, after I screwed something up at my first job. “In a hundred years no one will care”.
Loved it.
I liked the image of hollow casting a mold.
Very pretty. Sort of sad:(
I really quite like that. Thank you.
I like the poem. Thanks for sharing it.