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.
