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Craig Black Art Denver Craig Black is a Louisiana artist and poet transplanted to Denver. Art and poems displayed in Denver - Gallery open by appointment.

His work is primarily acrylic on canvas, but is often multimedia. Craig's work is displayed in his studio in Centennial, and can be viewed by appointment. Send a message if you'd like to visit!

10/25/2026

In the Fall

Cat under the Maple.
Its starting to turn.
Red now, a glow.
Soon enough to be gold.

Across the path
a white picket fence.
Trying to hold
the afternoon sun.

Evening haze has
begun in the field.
The forest drifting
into soft shade.

Setting bird cries
now in the air,
then still until
night birds call.

And then the cat,
remember the cat.
He’s watching shadows
come off the fence.

Crossing the path,
his clock ticking by.
Shadows of minutes,
till his dinner time.

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10/25/2026

History

A collection
of tales.
Scattered through
paths of time
in constant revise.

An ocean in mind
where the waves
change with the
winds and tide.
Where they began
can never be
remembered.

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10/25/2026

Burst

Sometimes a thought
races through.
The rest of the day
loses grip.
Something is coming,
perhaps profound.
Or maybe just
trying too hard
to convince you.

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10/22/2026

Getting Past

She looked
through the years,
passed her tired of
things she’d heard.
A balance found
between said
and heard.

How much
was shared,
how much remained
to hide from easy
explanation.
Suspicions
never aired.

Hard to know
and never say aloud.
Light and shadows
danced behind
her eyes that
never really
closed.

Presenting
wasn’t showing
words unspoken.
Left in the air
to talk around
forever.

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10/22/2026

No Telling

They assumed
he couldn’t see
if he didn’t say.
Missed his
depth of gaze.

He looked in,
saw the hiding.
Left to make his
own decide on
dropped implies.

They’d wonder,
days to come
how his whys
were acquired from
other sources.

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10/22/2026

How Not

He listened to
their words.
Still young he
had himself
to find.

Leaving him outside
seemed an easy thing.
He had questions,
they felt exposed.
Replies guarded.

It was always
not his time, yet.
He suspected
their comfort
felt at risk.

He knew there
was an answer.
Somewhere for his
later finding.
They wouldn’t say.

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10/22/2026

Veils

She’d remember
that day.
The crowd had
gone home.
She sat on the
edge of the stage.

Gazing ahead
and behind.
The house lights
were left on.
She could hear the
cleaners and crews.

From her perch
she could see a
night’s purpose
departing,
feel the weight
of the years.

Sensed feet on
the boards,
dropped words
in the air.
All the hopes lost
or realized.

Knew she’d be
back, play again.
Step into that
other world.
Be as much there
as here.

Take them into
other lives, if only
for moments.
Other times,
walking to veils,
stepping through.

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New work.
10/19/2026

New work.

10/18/2026

Little Tricks

There’s really no way
to know you were there.
When you consider
all the possible
days of your life,
there are far more
you don’t recall
than do.
Still, all of them
are you, whether they
happened or not.

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10/18/2026

Out There

We get from
one day to next
finding we don’t know
more than do.
Convenient I suppose,
stopping when it seems
a point is reached.
Ignoring doors for
comfort in the
room.

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