Painters

HITCHENS

Wash -

Slabs of colour representing

Streams of light and shade imaging

Each splash.

BACON

Straining people from now

In pictures from the past;

Flesh cum flesh cum bloody meat,

And how!

NASH

War speaks to us all:

Hatchets of shapes staggering the skies,

And fields of blood - death asking why

We have to remember.

HOCKNEY

Bradford in Los Angeles.

The light of colours,

Bright to the point of brash,

Splashing the warehouse walls.

VAN GOGH

Pays Bas in Paris,

Sans ear and health and mind,

Attacked by the waiting rooks

At the Reaper's harvest time.