(Leaf 137) – Art Inspired
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| Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night (1889) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Temporarily rounding off the “art inspired” theme explored over the course of the last three leaves (Leaf 134; Leaf 135; Leaf 136), this poem isn’t so much about one particularly well-known painting – but more about that white cube in which we now expect to see paintings and artworks. Both physical and conceptual, four white walls, a wooden floor, and an unconscious skylight receding somewhere overhead. To me, such ubiquitous art gallery spaces always seem to echo in my mind with an image of the cerebral interior of the human skull.
A starry sky
staring back
– a stark white wall.
