A Commingle of Art and Time
Sunday Salon Assignment Select two objects - observe, color, shape, function, history, and association to note the attributes of each. Find a connection, write. A Commingle of Time and Art By Mary Strong Jackson From the boy afraid of monsters from the darkest brown eyes dollops of tears dropped while his older brother stepped unafraid while his little sister stomped her foot this boy’s pencil made superheroes bound off the page until time morphed them into charcoal Chinese Death Masks, sketches from movie stills, and wild evolving characters moving about from his pencil’s tip, slope, and eraser this boy grown to man in a slip of time gave me Frankenstein’s monster framed in greens and blacks in the closed-eyed body of Boris Karloff two beings in one now share space in my house placed beside the poster-sized photo of the highway outside my window once on a stormy night I lie in bed with Mary Shelley candle lit puffed pillows behind her writing the sto...
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