Slow Life (For Joseph Cornell)

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"The pure sense of omnipotence"/ Pasta: Joseph Cornell diary notation, 1947 (Smithsonian Archive of American Art)

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Cinematic blossoming of blue planet minutiae
Giuditta Pasta
Slow life

2

Blue windows behind the stars
And silver flashes moving across them

Like spotlights at movie premieres

Long cool windshield wiper bars

3

Can one make works that are

Not "of" art?

Fresh Widow / French window

Painted light blue

With black leather "panes" so that

At the life opera

All day it's night

4

The butterfly gently opens itself like a fist
Dividing into wings and drifting off
Over the cube's puzzled head