Brays Of Our Lives

The Greatest Subject

for Sue Kroll—a great artist

A painter’s eye can beauty find 

Within a bowl of fruit; 

A vase of blossoms can inspire art. 

A scenic lake can fine art make, 

As vistas can inspire,

The nude in the museum plays her part.

But should you want a subject tuned

To every singing stroke, 

And should you want a work that leaps the page,

Consider painting something living, 

Clad in shining coat—

With eyes more wise and soulful than a sage.

There’s something in a landscape set

To perfectly cast light, 

And something in a quiet stilllife, too,

But there is something even better—

Something with more heart—

In paintings of our stoic friend the mule.