Heart To Heart

It’s time we had a talk.

Art is communication through perception.

Art shades phenomena to bring out facets

that are otherwise obscured. Dancing 

brings out the joy of movement, 

for example. Painting shines light on 

different views…theatre shows the reality

of hypothetical situations common to all…

literature and poetry use words to show

worlds beyond words. Real art is the 

furthest thing from distraction or 

entertainment, though art is used for both. 

That’s why a red wheelbarrow is so 

important; because what’s in front of you 

is as close as you’ll ever get to the truth.

Belief is just icing people put on reality

to make it look like a piece of cake….it’s

an all purpose flour you can bake into any

shape. 

People who find my poetry…or any poetry…

are looking for something…anything that

strikes them as real, true. Finding the truth

is relief from confusion and uncertainty.

Poetry showed me the way, in byte sized

increments, to see existence with surprise

and wonder; that another mind could 

actually articulate what I was experiencing

when I didn’t have the words. So, if there is

a universal mind, it is expressed through art.

“If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy

dying.” That’s Bob Dylan. That’s art. That’s

all you really need to know, if you can get

the message.