#1220 - ‘the intoxicating air of perfect liberty’

1220

5.v.23

2.125

 ‘the intoxicating air of perfect liberty’

ekphrastic after Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’

 

you’ve got to love an earthly delight

 

it’s on all fours

as naked as fruit

a strawberry delivery

grape cluster

 

we hold up a berry

 

one leg rakish

and kiss

 

we swim with the fish

 

tenders exposed

crustacean carapace to protect

 

it has to be larger than life

 

a kind of hell gone right

 

fed by birds

 

they come for your head

and carelessly

 

bunch of flowers in your arse

beat me with another

 

we ride on the backs of weird wild beasts

 

some take to

a sky comprised entirely of farts

 

will you call such machines?

and what delight to fly!

 

how human these animals are 

earlier effort --

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

#1003 - just one more garden of earthly delights

 

5.x.22

1003

3.277

just one more garden of earthly delights

ekphrastic

school of Bosch

 

gorge strawberry

ride shellfish

pluck

feed me

hold

come kiss 

 

bathers ready to go

 

some in a tree

and all eyes up

 

flowers grow from the fundament

here’s an owl’s moustache

 

beat me with such

 

face the rat in the glass

 

little balls drop from God knows where

 

the fruit have tails

and so much skin to dare

 

gymnastic innocents

pokey out bits

 

go goatly

peer from your box

 

grapes bunch

at the ready

 

rode the insects here, lamp head

 

come into the shell and fart bubbles

 

call it cornucope

all open mouthed with awe about

 

nor ever yet post-coitus calm

 

what owl and vanish, ravishment

 

what towers of flesh

some unicorn

and mermaid acrobats

 

everyone was here

 

futures are at the top of the picture

where creatures are taking off

 

(the fish were always going to give in to flight)

 

we come from and to dark times

 

and the moral of the story –

nothing earthly is delight