CANVAS

 

There is no blue without yellow 

and without orange. 

– Vincent Van Gogh

 

a room filled with brush strokes 

stars candles and lanterns

                orbs of light

 

spirals cypresses and arches

frames within frames pool tables

and potato eaters sowers and

self-portraits beds and chairs

cornfields and crows watery

reflections and irises so many

shades of blue yellow and orange

dissolve into and out of each other

 

I move masked 

and at distance 

among other beings and phones

           circles of safety on the floor 

I marvel at and immerse in

the work of Van Gogh…

 

another man elsewhere 

paints concrete

             the largest prayer to the planet 

the book of records records

on a canvas over earth