Oil Pastels
Dark blacks, blues, navies Harshly scribbled on blank canvas Careful, skillful hands doting here and there, slowly ambling along A few stragglers join the palette: pink and swampy green, purple lilac, mossy brown, cerulean blue. The man’s silhouette mirrors that of a ghoul with patchwork skin tones like wispy sunset clouds Slowly, gradually, lilac bleeds …