peeling paint

Mmmm... lots of crystal clear atmosphere here.  The ending is strong with hearing and feeling. The important "while not painting" is an original phrasing, and puts the reader (watcher) next to you looking. Clear image "the magpie" and its "tilting". The "lapis and mirror shards" come across to me as painting materials discarded, dropped, and that they "paint" on their own is easily visualized and fascinating... "inspiration asleep" strikes my imagination as a cat!  Nice word "dreamturns". I like the  "constants:" Oh my, I just realized that for two readings I read that as "constraints"!  (I almost like that better more blunt and these ARE constraints... isn't that interesting?)The images in that stanza are very consistent, the "chap) ping, "boring", "forgotten", etc.  (it took me a second reading to be won over by "forgotten light"--but then I saw it as temporarily lost inspiration. And of course I love the "leftovers"!  Wonderful to be reading you again!