A few weeks ago on Twitter, I heard about the Austin Makes a Book project, a book that will be crowdsourced for both content and funding. I’m already a published nonfiction author, but I’ve always wanted to have some of my poetry published as well, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. If you’re interested in participating, they’re accepting submissions as of today, and they’re taking the first 100, so get in while you can.
Here’s my submission, which I wrote a few years ago after a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in Houston:
Untitled 3 by Merrick Brown
Untitled 3 by Merrick Brown
Untitled #3
I approached.
I stared.
What could it be?
I looked.
I read…
“Untitled #3″
Abstract.
Obtuse.
Yet somehow…
This imagery
Speaks to me.
Somehow…
The artist has expressed
A notion of emotion
Beyond words—
Beyond pictures—
A language beyond known language.
Somehow…
It ignites my soul.
In the way he intended?
I don’t know.
Yet somehow…
It doesn’t matter.
This free-form
Collage of colors
And shifting shapes
Has connected us, heart to heart.
This artist, through his art
Has done what words seldom do
Between me and you.
I moved on, somehow…
Changed.
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