Vincent at Auvers, by Tim Goldstone

Wheatfield with Crows, by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands). 1890.

  
Vincent at Auvers  
 
Shutupshutupshutup shut up about my ear you fools
shut up and watch this blazing blazing yellow
move towards me into me and out of me as me
so so much of me I burst out with paint
I keep it you know - the blazing yellow
not like a pet, not tamed no no no not like that
in chains and cages and on a rope not like that
I love it and I let it roam wild and I let it grow wild
and feed and love and fight with me in the wild and it grows
and grows and grows, and grows wild
so wild wild wild and it blazes
so so brightly brightly brightly that one day
one day it must must must turn on me must savage me
must kill me when crows stick screaming
to my newly painted,  
pulsing pulsing pulsing pulsing
pulsing painted painted painted,
painting pulsing painted pulsing painted pulsing
   dangerous
 
        dark blue sky.
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Tim Goldstone

Tim Goldstone lives in rural Wales after having travelled widely - working and backpacking throughout the UK, Western and Eastern Europe, and North Africa. Poetry, prose, articles, published in print, online, and anthologies. Prose sequence read on stage at The Hay Festival. Material broadcast on TV, radio. Recipient of Welsh Arts Council scholarship. Twitter: @muddygold