Pincelada Flotante y Habitad (Inhabited and Floating Paint Stroke)

Here's a little something that was inspired by a painting in the Blanton Museum, which is definitely a place you should all visit to see some excellent exhibits and some of Boho Coco's own poets!

abandoned footprints

so carefully placed

side by side like lovers--

erased by watery tongues

and recovered downriver under

the sooty depressions of child-feet,

estuaries salt rocky outcroppings

covered in fungus and chinese lanterns

and miniature whirlpools of salt

trapped between bare ankles

until the stones become smooth like skin

a different smoothness,

the icy sheen of steel that stifles

velvet worm-tunnels and severs

muddy streams like capillaries;

it demolishes

upward, outward

America, when was your Dream burnished metal

and Twenty-Story Hotels with walls

covered in frame-trapped pictures?

How can art be contained? mounted?

defiantly, enamel drips free

down the faux wood panelling

settling through pores in decrepit linoleum

until it melds with the sediment pulse of the earth

all civilization decays with the moss of time