At dVerse Laura is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write in response to painting titles. Of the five title choices I chose the first: “A Painter Without A Brush” by Gerhard Richter (2019)
dVerse Poets – Poetics – The Poet As Painter
“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of ‘you can’t’ once and for all.’ ” Vincent Van Gogh
The Canvas The canvas stared at him long, taunting him, daring him to move sans brush upon its surface, he stared back smilingly happy, slowly he undressed and rolled up his shirt and soaked it in paint, and frenzied it across the silent canvas, all at once, fingers, arms, legs, with every inch of body, he kissed and caressed that canvas with a language of colour rarely seen in any conversation or heard on any palette of note. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
