Portrait
‘don’t forget the béchamel’
and enjoy the magnifying glass
a mention to some sort of searching
musk rat grapes
what relevance is there found in spring?
motorcycle interruption
bleeding hearts. Hummingbird tree. Spring forgives
the abuses of nature
provisional but new opportunities
soil, air, foliage
Cuban food.
A thank you card exemplifies more flowers
slow to lower the anecdotes found
or the slight of brain
the boast of a routine that is absent
and its absence
becomes causative to subject
and object
The paint is drying
and then rewet
painterly from a photograph
An object to transcend written
painting
remember: ghost plant
magnet for ghosts
the insipid humming
return to disillusion
What will become of the words?
A painting became its painter
An exercise in self-restraint— active words of inaction
‘paradox
a lapsing of time sufficed.
Portrait
in ultramarine
sexual tension
is taking shape
and color: peanut and walnut
could be senseless narcissism
narcissist: don’t force the words
they just come,
‘you can’t hold onto
a wisp of smoke
not for very long’