SAINT JULIAN PRESS
Jane Creighton ~ Poet
Cy Twombly in the Thicket of Light
—after Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair
Menil Collection
All it takes is one solid word
for all to turn on a dime. Russet, for instance,
for bracing romance, as in russet hair
against pale skin lit by heavenly light
whose provenance, in the painting that rises
from this word, is unknown. Or russet potatoes
in a bouncing boil, almost ready
for black pepper, butter, and cheese. Which
hearty desire? And at what moment
does it carry the day in and day out
of our most perfect understanding?
All it takes is one liquid utterance
unending, untenable. Rose, for instance,
spiking the mobile heart, as in red light
parsing the aqueous white of desire
in the painting that rises from this word.
His flames are like water it manages to say,
which is to say, no beginning,
no satiate end to the life-giving sorrow
of a heart that hungers and thirsts and
lifts itself against the fatal outlines
of its most perfect understanding.
—after Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair
Menil Collection
All it takes is one solid word
for all to turn on a dime. Russet, for instance,
for bracing romance, as in russet hair
against pale skin lit by heavenly light
whose provenance, in the painting that rises
from this word, is unknown. Or russet potatoes
in a bouncing boil, almost ready
for black pepper, butter, and cheese. Which
hearty desire? And at what moment
does it carry the day in and day out
of our most perfect understanding?
All it takes is one liquid utterance
unending, untenable. Rose, for instance,
spiking the mobile heart, as in red light
parsing the aqueous white of desire
in the painting that rises from this word.
His flames are like water it manages to say,
which is to say, no beginning,
no satiate end to the life-giving sorrow
of a heart that hungers and thirsts and
lifts itself against the fatal outlines
of its most perfect understanding.
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Publication Date: September 1, 2021
Paperback: $18.00 ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-00-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2021936728 Number of pages: 120 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. To receive an advance book copy for a book review by email, please contact: Ron Starbuck or Jane Creighton. |
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