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Gaze

lawrenceville street art
photo by Sylvia, street art by Jeremy Raymer

your gaze leaves me frozen
and i wonder what your eyes hide,
a little pain, a little promise, a little pride–
your gaze leaves me broken,
and i wonder what your violet eyes veil–
see you later, see you never, see you ’round sometime over there

Exposed

photo b Wolfgang Stearns/illustration by Sylvia
photo by Wolfgang Stearns/illustration by Sylvia

Passing graffiti in the desert, I wonder, who are the artists?
What person came to this barren, unforgiving land where one can drive for hours without passing a house, a business, another human—and decided to make their mark here in the middle of nothing?

Much later I realized, we are all artists of one kind or another but some of us are brave enough to paint the desert.