Monday, August 27, 2012

Art Student

I give to you an observation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in eleventy-one words...


The verdant student yearns to mark the page with lead, ink, blood. The teacher grins, his teeth like blinding blizzard snow. Not yet, he mouths, not yet. The fecund moment lingers in pencil potentiality as bastard children circle like birds of prey. The master nods. The young sinister hand responds, grasps the black rod between a trinity of fingers; they form a gentle vice that transforms the lifeless stick into a wand both sacred and profane. He lifts the pen erect, a composer who has heard the dulcet oboe. With eyes closed he lets fly the tip across the page, scrawling a segment of the base, stopping short of actualizing infinity.

1 comment:

Mom said...

Interesting how your composition of something so simple as putting pencil to paper coule elicit anticipation....but it did for me..