Preparing for
the daily event.

Embracing
with joy

while others go
into whirlwind panic.

Find our voices
as we search

for the colors
that give

canvases
life.

We are
artists

and this is
what we do.

Keep our hearts,
souls, bodies

and minds
alive.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.