For George: Parade Street (East) Canvas, blank, hung at eye height a whitewashed mirror, mirror on the wall, reflecting everything and nothing, what you see in your mind’s eye, a swirl of possibility, potential, creativity who’s fairest, rarest, do we darest? carry on, acrylic, oil, pastel, pencil every colour medium in small and large and extra large a trumpet sounds, we charge, imagined battle lines now drawn and sketched as brushes dip, allow the paint to dry and tell me what you see, and why in mirror, mirror, on the canvas wall, in gentle daubs and slashing strokes conductor in the pit, a parry-thrust baton our rainbow orchestra ignites, excites the sensory, to stimulate like saturday tv and crazy, crazy tunes in technicolour runes hurled like thunderbolts from thor, electric art, eclectic start and finish, finish every time, again I challenge why, once that gets answered, every how is nothing more than detail Bill Arnott Vancouver author, poet, songwriter Bill Arnott is the bestselling author of Dromomaniaand Gone Viking. His poetry, articles and reviews are published in Canada, US, UK, Europe and Asia. Bill’s column Poetry Beat is published by the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers.
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