Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor

The museum is full,

of carefully manicured presentation,

of cooled controlled air,

of varnish-tinged odors,

preserving embalmed legacies.

Visitors acquire cultured pearls,

shaped and formed perfectly by artists,

speaking in tongues of hushed intellectualism,

with an ordained sliver of discernment into creation.

A simple painting

easily passing as an afterthought,

hangs small,

alone against a larger expanse of white

draws an inquisitive eye.

I imagine,

awaking within a beach thatch hut,

stepping out to warm sand,

soothed by lapping calm seas,

with bobbing runabouts anchored from distant moors,

unaware and oblivious,

to heavy framed mahogany,

to soft halogen highlights,

to probing eyes,

immortalized within a painter’s brushstroke.

- Mark Trubisky

Inspired by the painting “Safe Harbor”