PAINTING ON THE OTHER SIDE

A brush with death

Shapes a new picture

Implied lines

On the other side

A masterstroke

Completes my sunrise 

Or sunset 

On the other side

An oily tear

Escapes my eye

Infinite space and time

On the other side

I sign off

With a flourish

My first creation

On the other side

Michael Ashby, Sidmouth.

(Funeral poem for an artist.)