Learning How To Paint

Big picture ideas

But I like living in brushstrokes

Each stripe of deep sea

and shallow river, clear, flowing.

Rippling sunlight over

fine sand, deep, murky.

Fingers spread through searching

glints of gold, mica, shimmering.

Clothes sag and weigh,

glimmering, too. Beer bottle glass

beside beer can blue. Drunken dreams

of painting the waters

I fell in love with.