Photo: Marcus Speh by Bruce Spear, August 2013; modified using Brushes on an iPad.

Art does not imitate Life.

Artists join monasteries
recoil from false gods
focus again on the simple
potato soup, on people
made of reeds, on
hand-colored hair balls.

Make rank love in
chilled conservatories.
Holiday furrows.

[Partner piece to “Pensées qui coule / Not a Translation”][Thanks to Michelle Elvy for editing suggestions] [Deutsche Übersetzung.]