Sunday, October 01, 2006

On the subject of two...


Raphael





Masaccio

On the School & Trinity


This is not a gesture
or the hand of the world
anointed by cloud
the finger of heaven
recusing the poets

wait wait, the rock’s
perspective ideal
shared a unity
to live and die in dialogue
lifting the context
where the ancient
seems new, steers straight
up the stairs, while brooding
away what's left unwritten


The first shaped
invention of the wheel
spares purpose the job
of getting things done
economically

but canvas forms
and certain orchestrated
displays require more
allegiance to the compass:
when a traingle’s points—
points through space build
of men’s brittle shoulders
befire penitent kneelers
were what is to come

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