An Afternoon at the Lake

Jackson Pollock #5

Ella's prompt at Poets United's Thursday Think Tank features the controversial style of artist Jackson Pollock, who dripped paint from a can onto the canvas and often used grit and glass to make the work textured and "interesting". I have mixed feelings as to this form of art, as did many of his day. But this canvas spoke to me.

On a blue-green day,

puffy picture-book clouds

against a kindergarten-blue sky,

I show

another little boy

the wonder of 

an eagle's flight,

the beauty of

green against blue,

the joy of

water and sand -

lessons he will take

into adulthood:

nature, balm and blessing,

breath and beauty.