‘Art Appreciation’

Claudia Excaret Santos is an emerging photographer. Her photos have been published at Azahares Review, Blue Mesa Review, Red Ogre Review, Punto de partida, and L'esprit Literary Review.

Art Appreciation

I don’t look for faces
or for creatures fantastical
when I look at daytime sky.

When I look at daytime sky
I glimpse the artist’s studio
spilled paint

bold brushstrokes
backlit canopy
blue velvet canvas

splashes slashes
strokes streaks
swirls smears

pillows and billows
black white great gray
and blue hues all over.

Abstractions the attractions
when I look at daytime sky
feel like falling flying floating

face-first into that canopy
that comfort that vision
breathless to behold.

Robert Eugene Rubino has published prose and poetry in various online and print journals, including Hippocampus, Moonstone, Cagibi, Cathexis Northwest, Raw Art Review and The Write Launch. He's old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and smart enough to solve Monday's New York Times crossword puzzle. Other days, not so much.