February 4-18, 2019

Cameo

an artist

painting self into picture

may have a wish

or want to try

to live longer

than the three-score

and ten

is our lot

and while crickets

angels’ breaths

and the tawdry toils of life

stand more prominent

call our view

to more auspicious theme

are there still

today, proof

once they were

and did

and maybe smiled

as Hitchcock would

on inserting self

into art