Paintings

paintings of actors, dead and buried,
depicting medieval suns of fire,
melting across purple-grey skies,
into roots of utter oblivion.

villages,crying for needed space,
cities in the acting,
vultures, flying circles in desert skies,
hovering over long-dead prey.

starving artists,
weeping, crying,
wondering where that 'next' is,
writer's block hits hard.