Beauty to a Novice
John Joynt

the sirens are learning to paint.
not quite the same seduction.
mostly still-life and self-mutilation.
think Caravaggio with less places
to run. We were sailing in the
skeleton of a tree, on a femur of
zeppelin sea. we listen a little less.
from time to time throw a
pebble across to see if there's
movement.