HOW ART BEGETS ART

It started with a Braille button

in the pharmacy drive through

in Curtis’s haiku.  “How useless,”

 

we all thought, when he posted it

on Facebook, followed by several

innocuous comments.  But we liked

 

the poem.  Then as art begets art,

I remembered the delivery van,

 

pulling up to the curb

in front of Mr. and Mrs. Ross’s house,

next door to my childhood home.

 

The man in the van came often.  Still,

I don’t know what he delivered.

 

But on the passenger side of  his

windshield, a cardboard sign read,

“The blind man drives this truck.”

 

Even as a child, I wondered

what it meant and why a blind driver

didn’t hit the lilac bush.

About Helen Losse:

Helen Losse is the author of two full length poetry books, Seriously Dangerous (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Better With Friends (Rank Stranger Press, 2009), and two chapbooks.  She grew up in Joplin, MO but now lives in Winston-Salem, NC and is the Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.