Before I go.
Before I go into the flats.
Into the flats, lined and linear.
Lined and linear, beats bouncing.
Beats bouncing with each step.
With each step heart pulsing.
Heart pulsing I sing.
I sing new songs.
New songs
I sing.
Psalm 28:7 Psalm 96:1
There was no seal to be slit open.
My attention flipped over.
The scenes held in my hand.
The evening light crowned trees like a stamp.
Someone paid postage with beauty.
On one side color rose with the setting sun
and an angled glow skipped over
the folds in the fields.
Darkness tucked in for the night
under peaks of deeper greens and golds.
On the other side sparse words,
tight, lean, black ink spread apart
on white unlined space.
I am Love.
Thinking of you.
Vincent, come and tell me what to say.
I am afraid.
The beauty startled me
so I came back to capture it.
Bring your brush-sickle
and lop off that bale like an ear.
Forgive me for projecting on you.
It’s not words, but my words
that lie like straw gleanings
through the stubble.
I thought of you first
to show me how stroke texture
and vibrancy with syllables.
You were self inflicted,
but your brush with faith
incited you to a beauty beyond
and you welcomed me
to whisper by your left lobe
“I see it too.”
Oil my word economy
and layer it in gobs
as age and color magnify.
Image taken from my iPhone.
This is a print of Vincent’s
Gerald the Writer 