Wednesday, January 09, 2008



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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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

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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Monday, January 07, 2008

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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Sunday, January 06, 2008

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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Saturday, January 05, 2008

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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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Friday, January 04, 2008

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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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