Last year in an IWWG conference poetry workshop of Marj Hahn’s
we wrote from postcards of original paintings:
YELLOW LANDSCAPE/artist/JOHN MATLACK
arlene sandra bice
brilliant yellow in a living urban landscape
where color shows up to reveal
special pocket spaces indicating
poets
artists
musicians
are bringing life to a city setting
the creatives gather, cluster, whisper
vibrant partnerships form, friendships, really
latching on as extensions of self
easy to spot, these oases of art, poetry, music
colors abound, signage, posters, murals
in the unlikeliest places, just emerge
unplanned, fed, watered, nurtured
suffering? yes, those who try too hard
seeking perfection; art is life
with scars showing character
your choice, enjoy or no
absorb the blues
taste the reds
seek the yellows
notes fly out as the doors open
flooding the golden light
onto the sidewalks
where it leaks over the curb
into the street bleeding away
spreading love
leaving spots of life on a blue-
blackened night