Winner of the 2009 Ventura Valdez Poetry Award

Abstract Painting
by Yolanda Palis

In charcoal,

I follow your body contour,

trace arm, leg muscles.

I shade positive spaces–

body’s finished in beige impasto strokes.

Texture for your rough hands,

some diluted red drips.

No blue-black mix to match

the discolored mark

on me.

© Yolanda Palis

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