Around the fish, 1926

Paul Klee, German, (1879-1940)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Around the Fish: After Paul Klee

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The mind from nature, divorced by love,
Stunned into being by the running wave,
Swims backward always. Around the fish,
Unreasoning sensation made a wish.
Parsley, persevering in a tree,
Maturely withers in the alchemy
Of elms and willows. So with us
The elementary is most serious.
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Wishing, the Fisher King sat down
(Bait was his body, but his catch a crown!)
Incarnate fish sood rose again,
Hooked to the level of his flawless line;
The sea stirred; sunlight's mica hurled
Aroma of the fish around the world;
Darwin breathed it on another shore,
Gasping the less than liquid air.

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Swimmers, crying inthe undertow,
A water blinds us where we go;
The whirpool of the inner eye
Has wet ambitions, casts its fly
On sightless water; baited, fed,
Its fishing pole hangs by a thread.
But Christ lies on the blue plate, still.
The spawnless salmon strike to kill!
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Howard Moss, American, (1922-1987)
Selected Poems
New York, 1971, Atheneum

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Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Eakins, 1876

Thomas Eakins, American (1844-1916)

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

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THE COLOR THAT NEVER FADES: THOMAS EAKINS

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In a texture sculpted

in a tightly drawn

somewhat tilted light

Eakins is so real

he can give his wife

my mother's eyes

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and conjure in a canvas

an aching feel for faces

stripped of skin and

shown from within

to bare the heart's

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clear cutting edge

where pain is color

that never fades

and never fails to leave

blood on the artist's hands

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Chuck Sullivan, American, (1943)

Vanishing Species

Charlotte, 1975, Red Clay Books

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http://hirshhorn.si.edu

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http://www.chucksullivanpoet.com

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Venetian Concert, 1792

Francesco de Guardi, Italian (1712-1793)

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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Ballroom Scene (after Francesco de Guardi)
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The world's turned cold.
Naked for the mind
And the eye to be-
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hold its solitary light
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As truth once told,
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Touch defined,
Crystalled light the
Mind as glass
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To its cause, insuf-
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David Jaffin, American ( 1937 -)
In the Glass of Winter
London, 1975, Abelard-Schuman
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Le Concert Champêtre, 1508

Titian, but also attributed to Giorgione.

The Louvre, Paris

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On the Concert

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When first this canvas felt Giorgione's hand,
From out his soul's intensity he drew
In lines most acrid yet superbly few
A man, -- a soul, whose water at command
Of pain had stiffened to ice, whom grief had banned,
Till music even and harmony's rich dew
Fell fruitless. Poised, defiant and calm he threw
To the earth that wronged him his life's reprimand.
Yet, as he drew, a wind mellow with dole
Of past life as of sea-coast pine did rise
And warm the rigour of the painter's soul.
For his tear-moistened fingers warmed the frore
Hard colours of the cheek, and in the eyes
Set the large stare of Sorrow's Nevermore.

[1895]

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Trumbull Stickney ( 1874-1904)
The Poems of Trumbull Stickney
Ed. Amberys R. Whittle
New York, 1972, Farrar Strauss & Giroux
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The Forest, 1927

Max Ernst, German, (1891 -1976)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

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CEMETERY OF BIRDS

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for Max Ernst*

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Beyond the forest

the skyscrapers -- Mies van der Rohe´s

visions --

tower

with the optimism

of a war's first days

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the forest itself -- an inferno

in the atavistic mind --

simply threatens

to come alive

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two survivors

are trapped

on the no man's land between:

bird creatures with useless wings

refugees

from the human

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they stare at us -- their blank faces

ontological mirrors

silvered

with the void

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*After Max Ernst's 1927 "forest", Der Vogelfriedhof

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TOM JONES, No Prisoners, Santa Barbara, 1976, Skeptic Magazine Press

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Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586

EL GRECO, ( 1541- 1614), born in Crete, Greece.

Church of San Tomé, Toledo, Spain.

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EL GRECO´S BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ

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Yesterday took a white and ivory black

------rose madder, yellow ocher

------safron

------cinnabar

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Hands of Domingo Theotocopouli

-----this morning on the wall

-----of San Tomé

-----eyes of him

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Color clothed below, unclothed above

-----if seeing were believing

-----hands

-----eyes

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for Richard O'Connell

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Eliott Coleman (1908-1980)

American

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Elliott Coleman, Broken Death, Baltimore, 1977, Linden Press

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