The day of the dead
After the
mural: The Day of the Dead by Diego
Rivera 1923 – 1924. South Wall Court of the Fiesta’s, Ministry of Education,
Mexico City.
They, after long day’s done
They hang in bars, around cars
Playing their guitars
They are invisible
To the naked human eye
ocean
Still they are there
mingling
Among teachers, preachers
Hobos, brokers, & grease monkeys
Immeasuable generations’ Día de
Muertos
still understand the elixir no the
loss
as those souls of the near
and far departed
tarantism tap tap away the
blues
from all saints daily news
the sparkling sculls mingle among
the day and living in a new marriage
Mother and Child 1921 Otto Dix
They, not the perfect ideal of mother and
child
In their lack of money, so
apparent
As they are joined and always will be
Their eyes project a simple honest
love
An endless immortal love seemingly
Tangible. Her pale complexion allegorical
As she looks spent and the infant too,
there
Is poverty in every corner in every
city.
The wall strewn with bullet marks she
and her child secondary victims of
war
perhaps. There is an absolute beauty
here
from heaven? The classical world? Our
world.
Pictorial Space
‘I used to think that
pictorial space wasn’t that important. Slowly I began to realise it is much more
important than we think – than I thought previously, anyway – because it makes
the viewer begin to see the world in another way, perhaps a clearer way. We can’t all be seeing the same thing;
we are all seeing something a bit different.’ David Hockney
The surface reels around
Drawing and repelling
Playing and ignoring
The external world spewing problems
That the senses cannot solve
Geometry is half
relation
To every other dimension
The key to turn
The combination
Rewritten in any order
Another order –flip,
Trip, jump, and jive.
Open the door that
leads….
To the garden?
Deserts are keepers of
space
In the garden for
instance
The light drops down
In perfect accident
Glimmering and
glistening
Until the stars are…
Pictorial space
The product of where
eyes
Cross. With Bertrand Russell’s
Table for instance:
Singularly unique
And yet somehow universal
to all. As lights fading perceptions
perhaps ‘because it makes the
viewer
begin to see the world in another way,
perhaps a clearer
way.’
Diego Rivera and Otto Dix would both see the allusive and elusive reality in this panorama of colorful images in a modern poet who is close to
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