Learning to Paint by D. A. Powell | Poetry Magazine
Born in Albany, Georgia, D. A. Powell earned an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and Cocktails (2004), are considered by some to be a trilogy on the...
Share Firstly to confess lack of nearly all perspective. Eye sees things at the ends of stalks of the mind planted in the dull fat head and facing forward. Sees things flatly and lacks the way round. Consider this a lesson in how to see. As with a poem or a play, we start with a line. Where does it go, how does it go, that line. Early humans had four principal colors for drawing, but why limit. The important thing is light. See light make light shape light bend it into spheres as heaven’s hot bodies form in the void take on the light. When the eye is dull and deadening the round world flat aga
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