Improv 36 (“One Art” Bishop)

“‘The Art of Losing Isn’t Hard to Master’”

Each month I get faster with plaster
pouring and knocking bubbles out
like the sins of a pastor
yellow is the content for my watercolor
tigerlily grid that should have been aster
they weren’t opaquely rich enough
critique was a disaster
art history doodles to distract myself
from studying the origin of pilasters
too late when I realized my collaged spiral
staircase base could have some casters
my works’ conceptual reputation
suffers from hazy intellectual raster