Apricocks...
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;
Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs
And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,
To have my love to bed and to arise;
-Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream
Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting, No. 34, 1964 Death of Naomi Vine
Like an Ad Reinhardt painting Black comes the news that you Died seven years ago For seven years I had thought You were choosing art Had imagined you sitting As in the painting of you Nude surrounded by art Being art Imagined what museum you were enlivening You younger than I All your energy creative verve Vanished Into the spirituality of the paintings You love Black as the purity of night.
We are being sucked Down the net the internet World wide web News source meeting place Sextronic intertwine Reading messages massages Longing for email that is not Spam
McLuhan saw the face in a tetrad Media mad where hot or cold "Past times are pastimes" Our nerves our nervous systems Linked connected hooked neurons Electrically excited into an ethernet Like "The Lawnmower Man" lost in Cyberspace
Whose face book photos jpegs Videos word processed power Point to our displacement Our dispersal our discontent As Shakespeare disappears Into that nexus only browsers Grasp in their paneless Windows
Looking at your images baring all How is it that yours was a life of Naked fear Seeing you dance All confidence all self assurance Abandonment to rhythm for us to see How is it that you were in Throes of anguish
Have you now Undone that fear overcome what secret Sorrows you endured Seeing your vision of Southern strife abuse pain surrender loss Oppression Have you healed yourself With your art
Has fame been a confirmation a Burden another source of fear Will you emerge from the shadows Or flee back into them Will you find peace of mind In the gray between of Black and white Transcending the past
