Artistic Motivation - To become a painter

The Dissertation Series continues in Belgium with a poets response to the Surreal and the Natural at the Ancient and Modern Exhibition with Various Artists from the Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 2007

To become a painter

Angel du Nord
All over the papers
All over the skyline
The Blind Light of confusion
Drips from my brow

That these words
Are the headline story
Is your transient momentous reward

Nine years
Six alone in preparation
Watching the light
Through the seasons
Watching
Cows crossing the Lys

That these words
Caught the tearful story
Is your lasting posthumous reward