Leonora Carrington
imagine grey
clouds
rain
even the earth and its flora
a world best represented by charcoal
a pencil would be too sharp
now imagine red
yellow blue green orange
even brown seems vivid
brush strokes on canvas
sitting beside
the charcoal sketches
imagine a life
that starts in those greys
but ends brilliantly among the colors
colors that danced onto canvases
"a canvas is an empty space"
she said
and filled canvas after canvas
with colors
creatures we know in dreams
or from the world we glimpse
between sleeping and waking
how did she
wedge a foot between
and peer into that world
painting for us
the "oh yeah!"s
we might never have thought of?
Wyatt Underwood © 2016
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