Shiver of Excitement
Aug 31st, 2009 | By Eric Miller | Category: Poetry | 483 viewsA strained, single wire struggled
to hold a picture frame which was
putting a choke hold on a painting which
was in a swoon and headed for the canvas
Disparate artistic styles faced off against
each other in the framed arena, rebuking
eclecticism and the centripetal call for
synergy
A palette knife gob of retreating yellow sun
cowered in a canvas corner as swarming
dots of pointillism stampeded toward it over
the canvas plain
Heat from the vulnerable sun melted the
antagonists into brush stroke streams that
flowed to the mouth of an eddy created by
drippings and splash from a can
A dismayed canvas gave the impression
of dark thoughts, but it was only the shadow
of the newly blended colors casting their
shade and spreading a shiver of excitement
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About Eric Miller: Eric Miller is a retired dentist who has laid down his drill for a quill. His work appears or is forthcoming in Foundling Review, Calliope Nerve, Clockwise Cat, Flutter Poetry Journal, Poetry Friends, The Cynic Online Magazine, Word Catalyst, Short Humour, Word Slaw, Stories that Lift, Blink | Ink, Boston Literary Magazine, Writers’Bloc (Rutgers), The Storyteller, and The Stray Branch. |
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