1069 - place possessing us

 

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1069

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place possessing us

ekphrastic for Fred Williams’ 1963 ‘Young Yangs’

 

the striking thing is how nothing connects

although it all shines together

 

this is a picture, not of one, but of distances

 

not bones, it’s just paint

the wind has brushed things here, there

so that in this far moment

 

as if it were a sky taken

so many meteors fell

they’re still burning

 

close up you frame what’s only colour

 

for the present only

things must have grown

how else?

 

you’d have to hide from this sun

from all of the bodies of heaven

 

these primitive forms of punctuation

ambiguous to read