when I discovered the allure of art

In light corners and open doorways

The passionate artistic affair

A mistress for the senses

A lover for the mind

Sharing in the bed of creativity

Inspiration a room key slipped between fingers and into pockets, opening doors and minds alike

Tickling the dull embers of thought into wildfire imagination

Flames licking at the deepest corners of consciousness

Vulnerable and powerful

Naked and exposed

One climactic idea after another sending shivers of excitement through the limbs of a painter,

The hands of a photographer

The fingertips of a writer