Saturday, September 19, 2009

Indiana by Jon McLaughlin

impromptu


go on:
              i'm an artist
break my heart

it will
make my colors brighter

like a flashlight
my heart bleeds
across canvas i

never feel things

except in songs, and
i paint moments
on paper so they
can speak forever. so

go ahead,
take away my brush.

i will draw
with my fingers
on your pulse.

it's a long
slow dip
in savage breakers:
you took

back what you said
but i can't undo

how i feel.
             i can't unpaint

the paint.

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