Cowboy artist

[Artguy]

Cowboy Painter

Riding a 4 wheeled horse(s)
150 of them arranged on a v
Spittin invisible manure into the invisible sky
Galloping @ m/hr
Whoa and there...right there curbside
Parked- tied her up
Dawning my china town cowboy hat
Dead centre
Mornin blue above-just right
Back pack easel slung over my beat shoulders
Years of strain at the end of a rusty chain-feelin it
Paints-brushes-rags-thinners
Wandering the scene
Aimless with sharp eyes -squinted
The left feelin strange pain
Cutting pictures
Green grass park trimmed just right
One side- sq. ft. houses
Tenements on the other
"The grass is greener..."
This is the spot
This spot is small
Just big enough for my existence
Adjust my cowboy hat-cowboy painter
One in NYC too
Wealthy park-stoned Indians-beat
Heads low and eyes tight and deep
Kids'n dogs, swings'n slides
My easels slides off my soar shoulders
Unfold the Trojan horse
Sun still low in the eastern trees
No birds
Which view-which view
2 ft. this way
2ft. that way
City workers on a break-it's 7:30am
Bright orange jackets at a park bench
Anishnawbe centre around the corner
"Serving this community for 9,000 years"
I've been here 10 minutes
The Trojan horse up on 3 jittery wooden legs
Ya Trojans to the rescue
Found the view-eyes painted to it
Looking south
North elevation of old Toronto home
Almost Tudor - big sq. ft.
On the market $3.1 mil
Prussian blue sky-spots of it
Mixing coloured muddy minerals
Get that taupe just right
Slap-moosh on paint streaked palette board
Former painted ghosts within
The trojans don't mind
Image drawn Indian red
Correct it as I go-go
Rubbing off with pristine rag
White-damn white
No more-painty- as my hands
Lots of details-pretty-pretty architects
Pressed on painterly impressions
Moms'n kids wander by-thats' nice
One guy-are you an artist?
Depends on who you ask
I have a china town cowboy hat on
Laughs and off to the office
Then they all disappear-my eyes on it
Brush on the board
Short strokes-long strokes-dabs
Bright yellow & burnt sienna make the bricks
Burnt umber- lamp black & titanium white=taupe
There-I gave it away
Secrets to it all
Abracadabra-illusions of light
Adjust my hat-sun through the straw
It slides easily across my bald pate
The sun is higher-the heat too
Or is the earth lower
Really is noo up or down
We just made that up-down
A little drop of sweat on my brow
I've worked for it
Leaves-maple naw just dabs of green
Stepping back
Noticing urbanites all round the park-do they notice me?
Is this not strange
A cowboy painter in your park
Perhaps they fear-I may paint them too
One city guy works the other watches
Again focused-dabbing green-green-green
Spindly umber lines
The cowboy painter finished for now
Put all the Trojans back in
Fold up the Trojan horse
Moms and kids play
The city guy(s) work on
Indians still high-low
Left it all unchanged
Cowboy painter and 150 horses leave the scene
The day remains the same....

[judih]

enter
interact
secrets revealed
depart

[dadio]

one of the best read recently. Got the picture spot on.

[Artguy]

Thank you kindly.

[theirishsea]

a long poem but very imagistic and we follow the poem right on to the end. Enjoyed the "Cowboy artist"