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Boxwood Mountain

eyes dance over foxes,
one big orange
and two little oranges…

Mx. Lavender February 28, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Policy

I have a policy,
which is to look at a painting
up close and far away…

A. Violet February 24, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Jenny Saville: Child with Red on their Face

I don’t know their name,
I don’t know what she called them,
I can hear their silent, open-mouthed
pain as I stare into their eyes, fall…

A. Violet February 24, 2023 Free Form, Postaday

Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Book

the tree sways in the wind,
leaves drift left and right,
downward and downward,
baby rocking in mother’s arms…

A. Violet October 22, 2022 Free Form, Postaday

Best in Town

When it was all over, I looked at the dot with a tail curling on the inside of my wrist.
“Why did you want a comma?” the artist asked, cleaning their tools….

A. Violet April 17, 2022 Flash Fiction, Postaday

Green composition, Wassily Kandinsky, 1923

the eyebrows and the eyelashes
are out of order,
the moon is pock-marked,
I’m standing on a tilting plane…

A. Violet March 2, 2022 Free Form, Postaday

Study for “Composition VII,” Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

it’s so loud, I can’t hear everything
at once, the yellow is thrumming, insisting…

A. Violet February 22, 2022 Free Form, Postaday

Impressionists

I, too, paint sunflowers.

Color dances in the light, …

A. Violet November 1, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

A Four Step Process

I once figured out,
a four step process,
for making art…

J.R. Kovacs July 11, 2021 Postaday, Verse

The blank page, 1967

Magritte speaks to me,
even when I can’t make out the words…

A. Violet June 27, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

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