for Madi Coldiron and her First Masterpiece
The beauty of art, you see, is this: it
can be what your viewer wants it to be.
Loving your wonderful colors, I sit
and watch a candy-stick forest with trees
of various candy tastes. (When it’s dark,
I’ll sneak onto that vast canvas, lick my
lips, and gobble up all their honey bark!)
But wait! That would be stealing. Let me try
instead to dance through your color and light.
Pretend red on the left’s a hint of dawn
sun. And fluttering brightly on the right
a white-speckled cardinal who’s just flown
from its nest. Or butterfly seeking its twin.
Oh, thank you for art that lets me imagine!
Roger Armbrust
May 21, 2010
