photoart: sharon auberle
To Paint Forgetting
by
Barb Cranford
Gesso
a long narrow canvas thickly
and
embed a gaggle of dirty bits
of
rag, shards of bone, illegible lists.
Smear
it carelessly
with
pale tints of some color
I
do not like––ochre perhaps.
There
must be a broken grid––
maze
after maze leading
to
empty rooms without doors.
Lurid
bursts of yellow, orange
and
red will flash and fade,
throwing
fearsome shadows.
A
few gray feathers will float down
from
a strange bird beating its wings
against
the frame, top left.
I
wrote down these instructions once,
but
I don't remember why.
~
first published in FAR FROM HERE
