Ten Green Bottles
for Amos Ferguson

one little Amos Ferguson painting
hanging on the wall

all I’ve been able to afford
since sunrise, since prices rose,
since Christ rose

one little Amos painting
hanging on the wall

in the room where I eat
where I go to keep body and soul
from coming apart

one little Amos Ferguson painting
hanging on the wall
of my world


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2006
3:40 p.m. 10/dec/06