#498 - three ekphrastics at the AGNSW

 

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three ekphrastics

 

going to bed with a fish

from Lu Shuyong’s ‘Going to bed with the fish’ (2017)

 

and why not?

the slippers are under

flowers arranged

 

the bed itself almost a bunny

 

and snuggle in

hospital writing

with heaven and gates

with heart to world

 

all eyes on a cat’s whiskered suspicions

the fish in its mermaid slippers

slippery if not smug

 

 

resignedness

for Li Jin’s ‘The world is yours again’ (2020)

 

everyone is a fish these days

the colour comes off and one stares

 

home casual, slight features

a jug leans, cups either way

 

it’s like cardboard, the backing script

garnish, dinner not looking

 

fruit rots in a bowl

 

 

 

green

for Cézanne’s ‘The Banks of the Marne’ (1888)

 

the grass runs by

river still, set

 

pencil pines, paint clouding

everything built afloat

 

reflections in the illusion of wash

tiles and distance tricked

 

a village like the past locked up

tree’s pride of the season 

none of these human figures

nor is this where we are