http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424892553/184986/david-storey-i-flier.html

This is the painting that I used for inspiration for my free verse poem and sonnet. It’s actually one of my uncle David’s paintings. Check it out…

Eccentricity is lime colored and shapely.

Bright blue calls to muted pink calls back to orange.

A sing-song of colors gone wrong.

Outline of my imagination restricting without restrictions.

An eye in the corner watches me watch it.

A flair of the grotesque, uneven breasts call attention

To themselves. Promiscuous like its form.

His pairings impair me.

I’m not grounded by them being there.

A sing-song of colors gone wrong call out.

Call me back to a time without any

Restrictions. The color of sauerkraut

Stains the background, a mustard tyranny.

His art is challenging like his person.

Unforgiving of mediocrity.

A flair of the grotesque calls attention.

To his lime-colored eccentricity.

Stop calling out when you should call back in.

What is it that you are trying to say?

Without your own thoughts, how do I begin?

To me, imposing meaning seems a sin.