Rothko

On the Rothko exhibition at Tate Modern

Seagram Murals

Egg and dammar resin
Cadmium orange pigment
Dark warmth embraces small men
Who gaze as at Newgrange, Knowth,
Stonehenge - something bigger than self.
What lies in those forms? Who knows
Which way we look through
Window, jail or womb.

Black-Form

There is a darker-darkness
Once eyes adjust
There is a darker-darkness
Black and blue
There is a darker-darkness
There is a darker-darkness

Brown and Gray and Black on Gray

Lost landscapes
Starless skies
Desert sands
Hued horizons
In Polaroid
Where paint floats
- Distinct
Oil and water
- Insoluble
Solid.

Or yet they fight?
- Stalemate
Up close those strokes
Are in turmoil,
Layers of change
- Fluid

Fixed.