Septekphrasis [Ekphrastic Poems: 1 - 8]

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this is how I remember you always

a man lumbering along the past 

under his arm a reflection 

of some old flame or light

soft hat - long overcoat - a pipe

only it was never that

a dream maybe

a doorway

mine

Isaak Brodsky (1920) by B. Kustodiev

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◽ 2/30 - 245.3 

giant

kind[le]

[e]reader

mowing

poetry

down

Kazimir Malevich, Mower (1930)

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◽ 3/30 - 246.2

fresh flowers dead center remain

unseen, his gaze forever arrested

by crimson buds on a ghostly hat

[her ghost]

Kazimir Malevich, Flowergirl (1904–05 / 1920s)

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◽ 6/30 - 249.2

My storm rages

Your waves roar

My waves rage

Your storm roars

Karl Hagemeister: Waves in a Storm (1915)

 

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◽ 7/30 - 250.3

I’ve been thinking about you,
You say - not in a good way.
It’s never in a good way, almost
As if I my mere existence affronts
You. I’m sure it does. Do I care?
Not anymore. Do your words
Give me pleasure or ammo
For my own? Not anymore.
I think of them less & less
Now. You should try that
Too. It’s very liberating.

Hugo Birger: The Scandinavian Artists Lunch at Café Ledoyen (1886)

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◽ 8/30 - 252.3

tell me about the cat

dreaming inside 

you

Art: Cecilia Beaux: Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898