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          The Painting
          by Gordon Edwards

          a streak of words
          paint
          squeezed
          from a crumpled foil tube,
          emotions
          smeared across
          the white enamel
          surface of an
          unlined page;
          finger painting
          with clips of
          things that press up
          against my diaphragm,
          as frames in a
          movie ad
          that grab
          your attention
          just enough to
          turn your head.

          If these pieces
          fall into place
          as notes on a
          music sheet
          and their sounds
          take you back
          to the top 40
          tune that
          played from
          the dash radio
          when you
          grasped her hair
          as you turned
          to kiss
          her warm lips
          in the summer
          breeze flowing
          through the open
          blue Ford window...

          then the painting
          is the road sign
          and the journey
          through the canvas
          has begun.


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