Crude Painting - "Lovelier Than Air"
The color blue he had used to paint his youthOn sidewalks of cities where friends had stood
He traced them in memory with written words
Like a Basquiat truth where the echoes of lovers had been
He felt the destruction of innocence too young, he thought
So the corner of the canvas he painted red for sin
Words from mother/father, no advice
A mariner at sea without compass or star
These were scenes lifted from a poorly lit film
But the secret whispers of sleep came to him
And he left his painting incomplete
But lastly wrote as a signature to life
“You are lovelier than air,
To breathe you in…
And to exhale you…”
About the Author
Lee Vowell is co-founder/editor of the ejournal Underground Window. He has had poems published in many publications of all kinds, but finds it pompous and elitist to list them in any venue, unless you go to his personal website, of course, www.geocities.com/lee_vowell. There you will find quite disturbing matter, and it may cause you to cancel your internet subscription and sell your computer, for the fear of someone finding out you’d been to his website would cause you great and continuous embarrassment (and maybe the loss of an arm).
Lee is 34 years old, lives in the southern United States, and hates violence, but likes tennis.
about these poems
This poem and the poem What You Wanted by S.R.P. are both based on Lee Vowell's phrase "You are lovelier than air" which was used as the inspiration for the work you see here. - s.r.p.
http://dinnerpartypoems.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-you-wanted-based-on-phrase-from.htmlhttp://dinnerpartypoems.blogspot.com/2005/02/crude-painting-lovelier-than-air.html
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