With Malcolm At Lascaux

What would you make of it ...
A domestic chore?
What morel
Stripping back each layer,
Novamura,
Sanderson,
Crown,
Mere wall covering.
Yet there must be more relevance here
than the terror of trivia
Peeling through the years
there is a rich vain
of past patterns
decorating with changing hues
the skin surface
of families growing
together and apart.
No doubt you would stare
reading there
landscape of bogland scene
Trummelbach Falls and Grindelwald
honeysuckle vine and
intertwined Heraldic beasts.
You visualise what has not been realised,
in primary, secondary and complementary
colours and shapes
scraped
from beneath the surface
framed in the minds eye
fossils that lie
in the cave along with the first polychrome
arrow and deer.

So here we are
yet again
the froth floats down the side
of another glass of beer
another trivial diversion
of chromatic dispersion?
What do you see?

Maurice Blease