When you create a painting
and let it move
with the words of ages
and the song of June bugs –
the image of a father
lost in contemplation with
the vagaries of children
all of them complacent.
Being alive doesn’t need space,
only the wisdom
‘do it now’ while you can
tomorrow is behind you
and before you know
dirt is what becomes you
where all the living go.
*French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier released in 1984
Anne's mediocre poetry 