Lost Art by Amy Soricelli
My fathers brushes were not strong when they
were full or wide stroked.
He couldn’t paint a landscape with his mind full
of get away plans, so he couldn’t add a horse
that wouldn’t run away.
He painted a cottage once with small curtains,
but it sat on a mountain with the sky mostly
grey and chalky so we left that out in the rain.
When he used blacks and filmy blues for his street
scenes not filled with people,
we sat around wondering if he knew us at all.
Amy Soricelli has been published in numerous publications and anthologies including Dead Snakes, Corvus Review, Deadbeats, Long Island Quarterly, Voice of Eve, The Muddy River Poetry Review, Vita Brevis, Terse Journal, Remington Review, Literati Magazine, Blind Vigil Review, Red Queen Literary Magazine, and The Westchester Review. *Sail Me Away (chapbook) Dancing Girl Press, 2019. Nominated by Billy Collins for Aspen Words Emerging Writer's Fellowship 2019 and nominated for a Best of the Net Award by Literati Magazine 2020, and Camelsaloon 2013, Recipient of the Grace C. Croff Poetry Award, Lehman College, 1975.