Patina, by Tricia Marcella Cimera

Crock, Kettle and Onions, by Charles Ethan Porter (USA), 1890.

Patina

A black man in 1890 painted 
these gorgeous glowing onions.
Don’t ask why his colour matters.
Colour mattered when he painted 
the crock, the kettle, the onions, 
their lovely coppery-gold patina.
Still does.  Still life.

Tricia Marcella Cimera

This poem was written as part of the 20 Poem Challenge.

Tricia Marcella Cimera will forever be an obsessed reader and lover of words. Look for her work in these diverse places: Buddhist Poetry Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Foliate Oak, Fox Adoption, Hedgerow, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, Stepping Stones, Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere.  She has a micro collection of water-themed poems called THE SEA AND A RIVER on the Origami Poems Project website.  Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland).  She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox.