Hobo Post #2

"Hobo Post #2"
Attached to wood post in the park behind N Street between 22nd and 23rd
Watercolor on paper

I stumbled across "Hobo Post#2" on my walk home this afternoon. I love this kind of art that's "given" to people to experience on their way home from work, carrying groceries or walking the dog.

When I found it, "the post" was hanging upside down, the top push pin having come loose. So I flipped it around, pushed the pin back in and started walking away. It was just a few steps later that I decided to take a quick shot of it. I don't expect that it will still be there in the morning, but I'll be happy if it is.

Here's what the poem reads:

who does not love
the hot cocoa headed cowbird
fribbling away in his nest
the sparrows drawing baths
in the dust

o who can forget
the steaming puzzle
of a velvet muzzle
emerald scattered pastures
tumbling
like the rumbleseat of giggling garters

where is that freckled face
i nenver get over
in the lavender smoke
& the chipped china teeth
of my sleepwalking lover

Update: "Hobo Post #2" was still posted in the park the next morning. As I walked by, another woman was standing looking at it. She touched the paper gently to see what it felt like and then walked away. Hopefully there will be more soon.