Watercolor and Permanent Marker on Paper
14" x 10" w/o Matte; 18" x 14" W/Black Matte
 
Prices are negotiable on original art. 
 
Text'
Negative Image 
by Emily Calvo
 
A small boy 
more chest than legs
grin than face
with one raised eyebrow
hands in pockets
is locked in Kodak black and white 
 
Though he would grow
to hold a girl, a job 
the stage and play a man
with hair dyed gray, 
rebel, rappel off cliffs of rock
and spin the wind with laughter
 
before the meat of him submitted
to collapsed synapses 
and his kaleidoscope reality 
shifted with prescriptions
to detour the tomorrow of him.
 
Not even I,
with blood like his,
can rearrange the shapes and sounds
we call a voice, a face, a day
and put them into place.