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Junge Frau (bunt) / Young Girl (coloured): Gerhard Richter, 1965, oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)
Pumped for a rhyming line into air
A football falling through registration,
Here I come: That’s Kathy’s Clown,
A song by Don and Phil in her
Consciousness. And mine. A beverage
Passes between lips, they’re her lips;
I am that beverage. Her Royal Crown
Classes break on the hour
Bar, O falcon of the lecture!
Fall, footballs, through the leaves!
We clown in airs of each other’s consciousness:
I bring hers stealthy cigarettes,
Between-halves tears; she brings mine
Contemporary milk of the lectures.
Turmspingerin II / High Diver II: Gerhard Richter, 1965, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)
Inge (bunt) / Inge (coloured): Gerhard Richter, 1965, oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)
Everly Brothers, Cathy's Clown, live, 1960.
ReplyDeleteI think she gets the better deal with the "stealthy cigarettes" and the "between-halves tears". That "contemporary milk" turns sour quickly.
ReplyDeleteClark, Richter and the Everly Brothers; the static is fierce and wonderful!
A crazy American sonnet!
ReplyDeleteAh, the pleasure it seems to have been, once, then, awash in the autumnal colours of delusion, to be a crazy American sonneteer!
ReplyDeleteAh, the instant souring of all that contemporary milk!
Great poem, so completely alive in its language.
ReplyDeleteDitto to what Terry said, Tom. As always.
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