Night Creature

Painting a la Flora Bowley --

I recently received her book,

Brave Intuitive Painting.

Very different approach & so

creating difficulty for me.

[Note:  I think this is a good thing!]

1st Before:

[just paint, just throw paint around, play, ad-lib, no plan]

2nd Before:

[more paint play, covering what I didn't like at first, experiments]

Completed Page:

[this took 3 hours of more reworking - a genuine struggle]

[I did NOT like this page until I added my journaling - true story]

At night,

beyond the violet dusk,

comes my poetry soul and all her bravery.

Not only the feeling, but the

permeation of KNOWING.

Ferocity without 'attitude' --

just the muscle of it,

or its sleek bones.

Every thought arrives, prepared --

in paint, with feathers.

I dance, these pens

percussing across paper -

a fingerprint, a trail, a path,

many stars --

illuminating --

illuminated.

I am both a morning person

and

a night creature,

boundless, always --

discovering & discovered.

I am ringed by awareness,

& also

satiated.