07 July 2011
More Cy Twombly
Many of the poems in my recent book Haecceities directly take Twombly as their subject. Here are two stanzas from the poem called "Cede":
whiteness can one add to white but white course proffer at the skirt of cause
it was Twombly and wholly in some other reference to how a lake we know in common
yields the business of a mark by four pendulant inflections
a boxy vent as to air the swan its ebullient row of grace no more
nothing of the shaled discs, unfettered ware's ledgers of the rout, volumes of
yet dregs deterred in throes of vulgar matting so a sense serves mercy: unwelt
by its compass, proffered frame by which each prey to each each mouth to each to hand
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to be rendered sans stock of crux and wont, logged above the demos and the stage
like Pound on Mencius on Confucius, (later) Olson on Twombly
what whiteness can one add to white, what candor in the face of the ring of address
in Pisa say, for Twombly, the frame maintains its course of shape
the frame-abyss, Apollo in the woods, lake-red for sacrifice and use
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