Friday, June 24, 2011

Pilgrimage: Day 23: Paintings

He is painting the rooftop
It's blue not gray
It may be a canvas
Though we could not purchase
It for twenty-five dollars
As the Matisse once commanded
They bought and lost
Bought and sold
Bought and saved
A cycle of paint
Of canvas or cardboard
Slept with the painting and the painter
Then watched them fade away
On the back of a slow horse

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