Still Life

A candle drips its gysm
to the bottom of a toltec
designed
mexican beer tray-
a single edge razorblade,
partially underneath
abstracted from old backpacks
or bottom drawers in secondhand stores

and a tin cup.

This is the Matisse story
of a simple arrangement
of cirrcumstantial objects
in a room on a thursday afternoon.

Bits of dry dust and black ash
an old dirty rag lay bare on the counter top

and this mornings work beneath her finger tips.