#1065 - anatomy museum

 

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1065

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anatomy museum

ekphrastic for Brett Whiteley’s 1961 ‘untitled’

 

the untelling of certain particulars

 

here’s where guess

they’ll say ‘I see scrotum’

or ‘there are strings’

 

light of limb

some shading

 

fault lines, fissures, traffic

all this done with colour

just a few strokes of the chin

 

here’s some complication

borad sweep, almost landskip

 

it’s pokey out and someone watches

 

there are deeps

 

and dangle just a toe in

outside of the frame we are lost

 

it makes you faceless, this