Poem – Action Paint Stripper (By David Russell)

Action Paint Stripper

 

He did it:

Bared around as a torn poster –

Slashed in irrigation, blatant in life.

 

Squeezing out worms, slugs

And snakes ablaze;

All burst to flood

Then blended underlay –

A laminated rainbow.

 

His luminescence crossed exposure’s edge;

Flesh writhed erogenous,

Prime canvas scrubbed.

 

Paint frames contorted

To every edge and corner,

Intestine centre

Rose to a shining swell –

 

Over he jumped – my razor bleep of terror.

Treading on sound’s soil,

A clogged, bunged, throbbing dub,

Whence life’s six oozing hues.

 

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