Wednesday, 20 January 2016

V. 2. / 141.) The Disjointed Rose . . .




I saw a ‘picture’ of the disjointed and the joined:
That which couldn’t live and that which could:
A cardboard stencil was laid across my page
And the image there mere empty space

Brush and painter’s palate --- then appeared!
Pigments: rose madder, sienna, and sap green
Rolled across flower, leaves, and stem
And took up the emptiness there

And seeing --- I saw --- and all the parts
Of the stencil were joined --- and all the parts
Of the painting were disjointed --- Breath
Left me in the instant --- such a rose would die!

Only that which is joined with life lives . . .




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