I CANNOT TELL YOU WHY THE SKY IS MYSTERIOUS (FOR BOB ROSS, AFFABLE MIRACLE PAINTER OF THE PBS SERIES THE JOY OF PAINTING)

I CANNOT TELL YOU WHY THE SKY IS MYSTERIOUS

For Bob Ross, the affable miracle painter on PBS (THE JOY OF PAINTING)

I will not speak to you in silver platitudes

I said to the small breeze hovering angellike

Above my right shoulder

What do I know

Except my breath comes and goes

But you have seen everything

While you were floating among the alizarin crimson

cirrus clouds

Tell me where you have been

The breeze replied

I cannot tell you why

But the sky is mysterious.

mary angela douglas 1 june 2024