Action Painting
A canvas we cannot stretch across the frame
nor staple down to fact: a ladder leaning
against an awning, workers pitching tar
on the roof of a church packed each week
with swine—a chain of pearls dangling
off the limbs of an artificial tree
where boy scouts gather in a tool shack,
jacking off to the sounds of Perry Como
on a karaoke machine—a televised priest
gesticulating wildly at the pulpit again.
Homepage image courtesy of Jorge Royan, Wikimedia Commons