The Garden of Blue Roses by Michael Barsa

Author:Michael Barsa
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-1-63023-061-6
Publisher: Underland Press
Published: 2018-03-14T19:54:50+00:00

The Master was an ancient man, voice cracked and grinding,

And when our man, our Keith, did find him

Holed up inside his attic heaped with art, he smelled the paint,

And glue and clay and wax, and that decayed and languid taint

Of something else. Burnt flesh? Singed hair?

‘What are you doing there, and there?'

The Master asked, while tossing down two photos,

Keith's latest work, the Faulkner twins, extinct as dodos.

They're propped beneath a pair of trees, and facing one another,

FACING OFF, the work was called, because—how clever!—

They had no faces anymore, he'd cut them both right off their heads

And hung them limp from branches over their death beds.

‘Too neat! You're showing off!' the Master snarled

And bade him try again, but Keith just gnarled

His fists and said: ‘You're old, you can't see genius anymore.'

The Master paused, and nodded, his eyes keeping score.

‘You know that everything is language, grammar,' the old man said,

‘Take murder, stories, art—they're all the same. And when you've seen and read

As much as I, you realize that genius is quite rare.

Most people just manipulate the forms they're given. No one dares

Do anything that's new. The forms are comforting, a blanket to a child.'

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