My Son the Artist by Denis Robillard

Playground of Shapes and Colours, photograph by Lorette C. Luzajic. Contemporary.

My Son the Artist
 
He draws a Crayola thorn bush
on a make believe
Paper landscape
A child’s simple brush strokes
invented in the brain.
 
He creates inept characters
False faced grotesqueries
Biomorphic shapes of Miro vintage
 
His imagination like a straw house
of feathers and
Discarded string.
 
Like a rag picker paint picking
at the bones of flowers
 
His objets trouvees
are always ordained
with human attribution.
 
He already knows the secret to
the spider web alphabet.
 
Denis Robillard

Denis Robillard has had more than 200 poems published across Canada, The USA and Europe since 2005.