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.
--Jack Miller
For Naomi Vine
4/30/2009
Image from the National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=52391
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