Homage to Lincoln Perry

Chloe Sherrill-Howell / V Mag at UVA

this painting leaves nothing behind.  

there is some spite brushed in: 

you can see the self-imposed deconstruction 

but not without rumination. 

how the twin brother of temperance 

merges with boyhood flaming nude. 

adolescent hands paw at the dead inside 

textbooks. Striking is the shade of cadmium blue.

and there is part passion too: 

on these canvas walls 

keywords are spun into ivy

it lines the halls   

where our carbon dark stains are redressed 

and where the portraits of frenzied progress 

emerge from blank plaster