Tony Beyer


Rothko


how colour floats
on colour
_

suspension in
vertical space
also implies
suspension in depth
_

colour without emotion
does not yet
exist
_

this spirituality
the commentators mention
dries out the surface
of the work
_

black is not one colour
but many
_

bird wing
charred wood
coat sleeve
body hair
none of these things
_

a shag like a special arrow
rowing through dusk
_

mechanical reproduction
the image
and the image
of the image
_

what is it that looms
so close
to the surface
again and again

the picture plane
not made of board
or canvas
but of light

towards which
all gestures
all images
and their absence
congregate
_

what there is to see
when there isn’t light



A writer in Taranaki NZ, Tony Beyer has recent or forthcoming work in Atlanta Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Jazz Cigarette and Poetry NZ.
 
 
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