#2276 -- can any eye take all in?

 

2276

7.83

25.iii.26

can any eye take all in?

ekphrastic for Grace Cossington Smith’s ‘The Curve of the Bridge’

 

all for art

 

this geometry is open ended

stands on stone

 

another shore approaches

 

the funnels of mother pass under

          arrive

 

distance is infinite

 

tools down this hour

workers absent

 

shadow falls over itself

 

strange weights

 

a frame of leaving

 

time’s arc

 

we could have left it there

 

one more harbour sculpture

 

not all of it ever yet to be crossed

 

there’s a sky of gradual strokes