'Street-Artist In The Sun' (Tuscany, May 2008)

STREET-ARTIST IN THE SUN

(Tuscany, May 2008)

as you pass me by,

feed me euros,

buy my art…

he sits

he sits by his easel

he sits by his easel in ridged dreads & facial piercings

he sits by his easel in the Piazza Della Signoria

he sits in Florence’s city of 1,000-year’s art,

he sits and applies raw sienna smears

over rufous blooms & pale saffrons

sticky with ripe & rotten colours

in tides of bottomless green wash,

he sprays in crushed ochre stipples,

crimson lakes seep into his canvas

below burnt umber skies,

as tourists pass him by

towards the Uffizi &

Cappella Medicee…

buy my paintings

feed me your euros,

the dead don’t need them,

but tonight,

I must eat…

Published in:
‘SPLIZZ no.70’ (UK – September 2010)
‘GLOBAL TAPESTRY JOURNAL no.32’ (UK – October 2010)