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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4253 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention The Ghost of Vincent Van Gogh Speaks to Chin-yeh Chi Lauriette (Laurie Byro) For Joe Salerno You have failed me with your empty easel, your brushes sitting motionless, like the bird who watched swirling stars from the asylum window. Dr. Gachet said “pay him no mind,” but he told me many odd things about the universe, about stars colliding with the earth. I tried to paint them, I tried to capture that harbinger of death. Instead I became giddy with the idea of making black strokes with his feet, like an Oriental master. Chin-yeh Chi, you are a failed painter, with your strange, unborn dream paintings. I am writing to Theo with an idea of an artist without paint, who will record these dreams into beautiful blank pages. The bird flew off colliding with a star and the dry dust of the winter garden receives each fallen feather like black rain-drops. Chin-yeh Chi upon awaking, writes down this entire painting with his finest camel’s hair brush. |
