#1700 - ekphrastics for two Klees in the Met

Paul Klee’s 1936 ‘Stricken City’ 

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a brickwork splash

ekphrastic for Paul Klee’s 1936 ‘Stricken City’

 

track through

 

you see the quarters of the town washed

stuck now

time is a midst of theirs

 

we know the river dry

 

take these same old signs

 

trick of a roof

the glass upends

now tomb

 

the bells in not words

 

we work from a stain

into the day

 

the all falling

 

you’ll find me there

 

just bite

 

it’s daylight

lost to the dream

 

amber cast

ekphrastic for Klee’s 1920 Redgreen and violet yellow rhythms

(Cubist construction)

 

a now and then tree

and lamplight

 

we’re boxed

 

and a fading

 

everything’s as if

so to the edge and far

 

just as hidden

 

something hangs

one might pull on it

who knows?

 

here are the strings of the score

 

this nothing still shot through with world

 

it’s almost where we are