Cave painter
in his studio
his eyes
are black
self portrait
requires
hand on
balanced
brush or
dust for
blowing
and an
inward
turned eye
the depth
of parietal
art’s mirror
to espy and
translate
to white
canvas
or cave
wall to
speak of
community’s
necessity
without
which there
is no
life or
growing
neurological
pathfinding
at all
in his studio
Rembrandt’s
eyes are
black as
also the
cave painter’s
forty
thousand
long years
before his
yet no
insight
do they
then or
today
our own
inward
eyes seeing
to the
back of
our soul’s
deep caves
ever
lack
Simon Marsh
Mungrisdale Writers 