PLACES TO SWIM
Summer's ambitious project — the beach and its
dark striped rocks,
stone-lined pool at the swim club,
passage where the tide flowed out behind dunes,
left fingers and lips blue,
tea-colored pond of black sticks where kids
jumped off branches of an over-hanging tree,
aqua
of indoor pool lanes,
Yellow leaves drift down —
fish-shaped ovals, flecking slick streets,
light October rain,
almost like swimming, the walk
through wet, late afternoon air.
In town this week, two people found goldfish
balanced in paper cups
in their mailboxes.
Teal blue wool, ten rows
you bent
over the piano in the kitchen
picking out the lost bars of Satie
(what could sound better?).
Summer's ambitious project — the beach and its
dark striped rocks,
stone-lined pool at the swim club,
passage where the tide flowed out behind dunes,
left fingers and lips blue,
tea-colored pond of black sticks where kids
jumped off branches of an over-hanging tree,
aqua
of indoor pool lanes,
Yellow leaves drift down —
fish-shaped ovals, flecking slick streets,
light October rain,
almost like swimming, the walk
through wet, late afternoon air.
In town this week, two people found goldfish
balanced in paper cups
in their mailboxes.
Teal blue wool, ten rows
you bent
over the piano in the kitchen
picking out the lost bars of Satie
(what could sound better?).
(how strongly a part of all this was erik satie. how similarly our artists paint the bathers.)
what I like are the differences between the drawings & the paintings- the paintings have a jewel-like quality, but they strike me as a little static, frozen. But the drawings are teeming with energy. Doesn't make one better than the other, just a curious contrast
ReplyDeletethat's a very interesting perspective, evan. other than the bonnard and the sketch version of the muller, i'm not even sure i can tell the difference on most of them.
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