Bart Wilcox
Kansas Crepuscular
2025, Acrylic on canvas, 12″ x 16″

Slipped another past us.
How many times in a row can the
boss lie down and bleed out?
It’s lurid, so, almost subtle for the times.
White towers toppling into
peach and purple shadows,
a bed for flagging coals.
No sky riper than home’s.