The Beauty Of Painted Stairs Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Art has jumped from the easel, the frame, the wall
It has spilled into the street
It is climbing a Jacob's ladder of inspiration

Urban Art, a part of a town's outdoors
In Ottawa, Canada is a solitary toddler
Walking up the side of a husky's jowl

Salvador Dali's underfoot
In Philadelphia's Pennsylvania
Two students perch precariously
On his left moustache
A couple chat intensely on his nose

In Valparaiso, Chile,
A piano keyboard bizarrely ascends to the clouds
Tiny birds provide the background singers

Sao Francisco, California, the sunshine state
Has a kaleidoscope of a twining painted stairs
A riot of painted flowers, imagined plumage

Poznan, Poland has steps of colouring pencils
Tumbled from Gulliver'spockets
Paris, France, has a zingy cabaret singer
By Zag & Sìa, an anamorphic upwalk

In Seoul, South Korea,
Gigantic goldfish swim around the steps,
The steps that are blue as a Mediterranean sky