August 8, 2019

A  PAINTING

In the middle of a wall, a painting,

on a wall painted egg shell off white ….
In the middle of the painting, a lone figure

in a wind shaking wheat field,

clouds doing nothing, wheat being cut down

to put daily bread on his table ….

Did he know he was being pictured, painted?

Did he know he’d still be around

long after he died, in this field 150 years later,

this scene of a World  War II tank battle?
I prefer the first picture - the first painting -
sweat not blood - falling on the wheat ....

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019