MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS WHILE
STANDING IN FRONT OF ART
AT THE MUSEUM of ART CHICAGO 2006

1. A MAN

must be a man painted this
shirt, tie, and no body
but the number 25…
could be he was a teacher
a scattering of apples lay
near the bottom in bright
reds and a touch of orange,
and where his head belongs –
a rocket flies.

2. Pink Water

Wouldn’t it be great to
swim in pink water
instead of always – blue.

3. Ramone

Romone - a girl with
leggings – pop vacant
eyes –
thick brows and lids
tells us she lived back
in 1955 –
Near her a boy without
a face – watches her
spread eagle beyond a
cracked sidewalk.

4. Sin

Sin and paper
twisted – turned
with letters
three dimensional.

5. Shadows

From a shadow of
a flower to a martini
with an olice
profile of an African
a child being strangled

The flowers leaves
are dry as a thumb
spills a martini – an
African disappears and
the child’s bed empty. . .

the eclipse – one opened
umbrella
and from a thumb a face
emerges
shrinks – as a tree grows
and then cut –
as art and turned into a
twig.