Atelier (solo)

task: mix a messy canvas white
 
tasks: medical bills 
broken salt cellars
toasters towels to fold
unmade phone calls to 
uninterested people vacuuming
 
I paint the center clean as perfect pitch
a Rothko moonrise
 
birch bark half-truths abound
Yes I love you Yes I have time
Yes I called about the light fixture
no answer
 
lift the brush again
Joni beckons on
give us this day 
our gently smudged smocks
you must buy the flowers yourself

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