Bart Wilcox
Stuffed to the Gills
2025, Oil and pastel on canvas, 20″ x 16″

The thing about a chair
this chair
is that it can only ever
belong to one person.
It can be sat upon
by many and many will be
promptly kicked
out of it.
Never new, now an
unidentifiable green
leather burnished with
human oil. Vocal springs.
It says, he is somewhere
else now but he is
coming back and if
he is not, burn me.
The heat is on and the
dog is grilling on the
register. Tick tick the old
furnace. A game on the
radio. Kitchen pressure.
Jesus oversees.