34. guitar paint

ahead of the guitar | the sound comes

rising off the strings | the sound

comes | it floats | a bird is

captured in the sound | presents

the shape of the music | insists

itself into a rounded | but

jarring shape | percussion

against the butternut | of

the guitar | hand slap

slipknot | enough weight and

the song | breaks

into pieces of another song | the

ingredients of | a cocktail

the music of the | breaking

glass | the musing of

the wood | almost speaking

to us | the words of

the unsung song | the song

it meant to be | when being

seemed | a thing to do

 

the shape of the paint | in the

pattern | of music

the sound of green | of blue

of muddy magenta | the contours

in the form | of

orange-yellow | pink-mauve

turgid green | the smell

of the music | in a turpentine swirl

enlightened | in the way

of a finger on | a strut

the screech of the color of

the warm | dream of a tint

the tincture | efflorescences of

carmine into pink | into beige

you can remix | the color

the sound | the pattern of

pieces | the precision of

error is the greatest | interloper

of the sound of paint | on a

board | a string | a finger

 

color of a | cat in

the shape of a smile

shape of the | color

of the smile | of the

cat | the manner of

a comma | the comma by

the pause | of the brush

on the instrument | of the

pick on the | painting

of the rhythm | of the

word of | painting

in the hand | with

the brush | of the

movement of | the lesson

of the shape | of

the shadow | of the

color of the | music

in the shape of | a voice in

the shape of | the tune

in the pocket | of your pants