After going to several art museums, I began thinking of the connections between painting and writing poems.
Painting Poems
Sometimes I work with watercolors.
A few fresh strokes and a line is done;
any more would only muddy the meter
and lose whatever had once been won.
Other times I work in oils:
Layer upon layer, word upon word,
writing and rewriting each line or verse
tying to better what had once been worse.
I’ll let you decide which type this is,
whether these wandering rhymes are art or chance –
the random stumblings of a blind man
or the choreography of a dance.
Painting Poems
Sometimes I work with watercolors.
A few fresh strokes and a line is done;
any more would only muddy the meter
and lose whatever had once been won.
Other times I work in oils:
Layer upon layer, word upon word,
writing and rewriting each line or verse
tying to better what had once been worse.
I’ll let you decide which type this is,
whether these wandering rhymes are art or chance –
the random stumblings of a blind man
or the choreography of a dance.
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