Paint Yourself

Painting with Poetry

Smithsonian Open Access

Paint yourself with the feathers
Of a crow
Split yourself with the honesty
Of a joke

Remain entangled
To the rhythms
Resounding effortlessly
Within

Paint yourself
With coffee and sleep
Make your shoes do the walking
And your feet do the talking

Paint yourself
With passion fruit and basil
Speak like a crow
Become the painting.