Cosmic Art History 101 by Ash Krafton
Who painted the sky
with brushes of fire? In streaks
of cometious flame?
That artist moved
on to another canvas
long before his creation
could be witnessed, seen, admired
Everything we see above
belongs to dusty past
Those splots of light scattered
like Pollock’s drips—chaos
or order? Only aficionados
and art critics will debate
while a student sees points
of light and imagines the lines
between, makes connections,
draws shapes, scrys symbols
Divining the dimensions of destiny
Only a student possesses
such confidence in the face
of monumental impossibility. And only
a master realizes the futility
of over-simplifying the stars
knowing each one isn’t a drip—
it’s a galaxy, crammed with worlds
where destiny is dwarfed by possibilities
too numerous to imagine
and pauses to admire the artist, instead
Sunset By F̩lix Vallotton, 1913 Рhttp://impressionistsgallery.co.uk/artists/Artists/tuv/Vallotton/19-25.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55156972
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