cancellationn

Part 1

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My son at 3 was dino obsessed

One day he drew a T- Rex all spiky and green,

that filled the page from top to bottom.

See its claws ready to rake you 

and those eyes, coals on fire.

Once done he picked up a brown crayon,

and called our, Mum watch me 

I'm making  my dinosaur disappear! 

and he methodically filled the page

from bottom to top in brown scrawls

cancelling his own work with pride and joy.

I watched, mouth agape

stopping myself from stopping him

deface his work, 

now only alive in this poem. 

Little did I know 

he was fulfilling a writing prompt,  

just 7 years in advance!

'Deface' is how I saw it then, 

focusing on the product. 

He was always about the process, 

and he could bear it, even revel in it.

For him magic was in making it disappear, 

not by erasing but by overlaying

and in so doing he avoided all attachment to his work of art

Could I ever create, like that, and cancel in one breath? 

I've been challenged, so here I am! 

Part 2