1955, by Yevgeniy Rachyov — illustration to the Hungarian folk tale “Two Gready Bear-cubs”
There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes
“I’ll thoroughly break you, head to feet,
but sister I’ll break you most dearly
with sweet words.”
but sister I’ll break you most dearly
with sweet words.”
— Yusef Komunyakaa, from “Cape Coast Castle”
“I don’t want a life I want a cell, but I like space and loathe vicious people.”
NOVEMBER 30 #9, SILENT
water media on panel
5” x 7”
2012
Paul Lorenz at STUDIO mars
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
—
Jorge Luis Borges
I say, with you
embraced at three
months by me,
into the velveteen half-shell of
your ear:
to you
I shall
make myself water–clear
slipped upon your pure face and dreams,
the galactic warmths,
when you have grown,
I will cowboy as you wish.
