Monday, November 28, 2016

Poem #21 An Artist

You and I painted
I will never see that picture
mused on outlined importance
forever fresh drops of pricked sigma
certain people lathed to live, to love,
 wickedness standing
we stopped painting tenderness
its daily dreadful line
to trace and retrace it
and they say: when does the heart lie?
I say but fifty other times.
no artist lives only once
fair and simple
living like butter neatly spread
on American white wheat bread
a proper dowry sorrow shed
triumph wiped their mouths

throwing thanks for old memories

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