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Michelangelo: Painter & Poet |
Michelangelo
with steel balls
& a wire brush
wishing he was
wearing motorcycle leathers,
going wild & crazy,
stares cross-eyed at the
Sistine Chapel ceiling—
nose touching moist paint
body stretched out on a plank
bones held by ropes from falling—
painting the face of Jesus
& the Prophets
with a camel hair brush—
in such a position
a genie emerges as a poet—
words not paint
start writing his sonnets,
a second career is born—
nails & thorns
digging at his words:
it is finished.
copyright 2007
Michael Lee
Johnson |
