When we miss somebody

how does the scene
look
to an outsider

an unfinished painting
with white silhouette
of the missing person

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From an unfinished painting

Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs

Watercolours from photographs

Poetry Prompts:

1. Removing or Adding elements from photo to painting (Isnt that what memory does?)

2. Imagining a photo in a different season.

3. Work outwards from focal point

Anything protected

Atoll Hurricane

is for Hurricane
to be safe
from it

Hurricane action
resembles the
cross section
of a human body
with the storm
rotating up the spine
and building winds
around the border
of the body

Kosta Boda

Flexible Work

momcorps
taskrabbit

Vase

Have you seen a
potter tease a vase
out of rotating
wet clay

Five Directions to My House

Five directions to my house

1. An invisible green lawn in the backyard
2. A pond

Unsame

Peer and Peer

According to dictionary one peer's origin
1175-1225; Middle English per < Old French per <Latin pār equal

and another's origin
1585-95; perhaps aphetic variant of appear

two different words
different paths
sound same
but mean
other

A dictionary
is the register
of births and
deaths
of words

Who ate whom?

Black Glass Still Life with Fish, Pear and Skeleton

The pear
human skeleton
and the
fish

all have
a skeleton

If the fish
and pear were
not edible

If the fish
ate the man

or the pear
ate him

The fish
ate the man

The pear ate
him

What ate him

Grilling Tongs

Just the metal ones
get hot
making it no good
for grilling
Serving Tongs
they call them

Ones with a
rubber handle
are for grilling
 

But if you
grill after dark
then you need
tongs with
LED Lights.

Swathe of Colour

Although I mean swatch of paint, I keep saying Swathe and that too often.

At Birds of a Feather, for collage were small scraps of painted sheets,
like parts of a triptych.
Colour applied such that the brush's passage shows.
The white it swept shows
The colour that leapt shows
The colour that slipped

Baby's mind

Thats not fair crime and punishment in a preschoolers mind
why babies love and learn from magic tricks

How to Celebrate your Birthday kit

A Kit from Dictionary is

a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose

A Kit 

replaces procrastination

of shopping

of making a shopping list

With all things in your reach

and instructions 

you have everything but to do

Have you ever seen a boring kit?

Even the Eyeglass repair kit

like an expert's bag contents

and purpose is magic

A Kit is fun
like a cupcake
instead of a cake
mini pennants
spell BIRTHDAY
just the same

How to Lose this poem?

Faith and Art

Faith and Author
Faith and Artist