Gloria Matuszewski

Oil medium
thinner formulae
palette mixing texturing heady mixing.
Dark layers repetitive, the
meditative pattern, laden truth?
Scratching the surface,
oil paint, oil pastel,
turpentine, charcoal black, begin again.
Now a collection of jars without a shelf,
a child’s shoe
an empty birdcage in a window,
ghosts from a fog, pieces about nothing, the remains, receive my prayer.