Kevin Patrick Sullivan has written these poems to pieces in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
Let the Light Shine
after a photograph by James Marx
This cave of moonlight
opening to the shore
the rhythm of the sea
reflected in the white water
glowing
Opens to my heart longing
in this dark night
Let me IN
I am only a stranger
till the light shines
My Old House
after a painting by Don Klopfer
So vibrant with color
the house itself a
dark yellow
the fence cast in shadow
the ground in a purple light
there are oranges on the tree
green shrubs
the evening’s light has
the Willow tree
red – the flax and cut wood
as if on fire
the Aloe ready to soothe
the worker’s back
My old house
a Californian dream
come on in
I tell you
There is no place
Like home!
The Other Day
after an acrylic by WB Eckert
I came home from work
Beat
Totally zonked – but
The news of the day
All of it bad
Kept going round and round –
Every which way
I just sat there
Backwards
On the chair
Tried not to give in