Underpainting

Underpainting

Lee Kiblinger

Wherever you come near the human race,
there’s layers and layers of nonsense.
— Thornton Wilder

today is an underpainting—

in season’s scumbling,
one more layer dries, opaque,

a visual humbling

until midnight blue
will shine cerulean

and the dull maroon
will only deepen

beneath the layers
of storied wait

and firm brushstrokes
of a brighter day

spread the morrow’s coat
with its holy glaze.

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Lee Kiblinger
Teacher & Poet

Lee is a teacher and late blooming poet from Tyler, Texas, where she spends her time devouring novels, grading essays, laughing with three teenagers, and enjoying poems with Rabbit Room poets. Her work can be found in Calla Press, Kosmeo Magazine, Heart of Flesh, and the upcoming volume of Solum Journal.

Painting by Christian Rohlfs