Making a new picture
from another picture I cut a bright patch free
sunlit ochre that I loved
placed it high up in this picture
ditched the grim grounding and
from another picture salvaged the russet
which had warmed me
excised the violet shades
and added it to this picture and
from another picture swiped a nice cyan
tore the lemon horrors off it
and slapped it straight
in this picture and
from another picture saved
a green I need to keep
and planted it in this picture
swerving the scarlet clash and
from another picture recouped a ruby strip
which mattered and spliced it
in this picture and threw
the threat of maroon and
from another picture held on
to clear blue and knocked out the grey
swept the floor and now the glue is dry
I’ve framed this picture
Steph Morris‘ pamphlet Please don’t trample us; we are trying to grow! is published by Fair Acre Press. He was awarded a DYCP grant for his visual poetry and is an RLF fellow at Greenwich University. steph-morris.com