Underpainting
What will happen if we are stripped of all of our layers?
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Underpainting
first published by Ekstasis - https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/underpainting
Wherever you come near the human race,
there’s layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
today is an underpainting— in season’s scumbling, one more layer dries, opaque, a visual humbling until midnight blue will shine cerulean and the dull maroon will only deepen beneath the layers of storied wait and firm brushstrokes of a brighter day spread the morrow’s coat with its holy glaze