Friday, February 17, 2017

Suppose it were Friday cxxii: Gathering speed







Have you been to the Musée d'Orsay
to see Millet's inspiration of the
motorcar? There's still time, even
as fast as fashion changes, today.
Luxury never commemorated labor so
swimmingly, or speed, its posture.

For every kernel of grain the gaze
assembles, discovery's less dimin-
ished than enhanced by a certainty
of following a grand haphazard way
of being formed, shaped, en route.





Now our demagogue for ancient jobs
bestrides the stage of luxury more
foully than emission standards can
bear, negligent and false to life,
while the provenance of art is oth-
erwise. Millet aroused indignation
at the Salon in 1875, but his work
was later bequeathed to the Louvre
to warn and edify false sentiment.

The picture's of a gender's place,
and we watch a gathering of speed.





































Jaguar 
E-Type 2+2
1961 - 1975

Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners
1875









Thursday, February 16, 2017

We go home now ix


A friend wrote in
that he'd majored
in Philosophy, an
approach to fact;
and sharply did I
feel a separation
in a structure as
a crack in a bell 








 Illumination of the Pantheon
 is always in the same place,
 because the edifice is still
 one place, while reflections
 will shift, as a clapper may
 strike a bell or vice-versa.

 There aren't consciousnesses
 in alternation by the hours,
 they are Pantheons, that al-
 ways possess the same pitch.

 We have the same government,
 every moment in every thing.













































Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Michael Flynn, the lucky one










   In very few days and
   with no apparent pur-
   pose of self-regard,
   he has shown the path
   the whole government
   will take, after twis-
   ting in the firestorm
   of its inventions.

   He inadvertently spoke
   with incomplete infor-
   mation. Why not? It's
   not as if this weren't
   how they seized power,
   it's not as if he were
   the whole rogue putsch.


























Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Anyone short a Valentine?



I honestly do
not think so.






    It was not a bad couple of weeks
    of lawyering for loyalty and re-
    ality, by the most consequential
    Acting Attorney General since we
    lived with the Nixon crime wave;
    
    and yes, for unconditional love.










  An astounding
  inevitability
  circumscribes
  the Valentine
  she delivered
  to the People.

  Tell this for
  those waiting
  off our shore.






      I asked why
      the halo

      does he
      survive

      by art
      by virtue

      by night
      I saw the rust

      around his eyes
      I saw why

      the halo,
      why he wept.




















Denis Bold
Hinge
  The Iron Dog
  [extract]
2015
op. cit.


Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Cercle Rouge
1970








Monday, February 13, 2017

Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, ba-by



  The Duke of Devonshire allowed
  a drawing that had been in his
  family for 290 years to be auc-
  tioned some 5 years ago, fetch-
  ing the highest price ever ach-
  ieved by a work on paper. Such
  things come and go, don't they. 































Raphael
Head of an Apostle
ca 1518

photography
2009

Jimmy McHugh
  and Dorothy Fields
I can't give you anything
  but love
1928










Sunday, February 12, 2017

Episodes for the mentalities








  Like a restive Ishmael, in
  need of resort to sea, I 
  revisit the polymath works
  of Ivan Terestchenko from
  time to time. In fact, I
  gave myself the pleasure a-
  gain yesterday, and came a-
  way refreshed by a distinct
  impression that a state of
  méchance - which translates
  poorly as our word, malice -
  is highly dependent upon in-
  cident and bad illumination.
  There just are not tens of
  millions of persons in this
  country who will respond to
  a call of malice. Mischance 
  is a fluke, not a trait.











     Merci.






















i    Ivan Terestchenko
     drawing in ink on paper
     ca 1995
     2009

ii   René Maltête
      1930 - 2000
      tribute, Terestchenko
      2009

iv  Ivan Terestchenko
     ca 1996
     Project for a dust jacket
       or gallery announcement
    Sailor drawings, made at sea
    [Demand publication: it could come]