Chauvet Cave - ed coletti

[Lawrence Robinson]

Chauvet Cave

(for Werner Herzog)

 

Handprints of red dot

crooked finger

white horse,

bison’s eight legs

signify movement,

so too a rhino’s

multiple tusks and

a spinal column.

 

Glacial time

sunny cold calcite

ibis skull bones and

bits of golden eagles

carried here by bears 

scratching walls white,

hyenas watch noisily

 

Paleolithic odors

imagined and real

of cave dwellers

envisioned and

everywhere,

small boy with wolf

white calcite eyes upon us

 

while my own paintings hang

in a Glen Ellen California

little art gallery

next door to a hotel

congruently named

Chauvet.

 

	- ed coletti