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IN ART AS IN LIFE

IN ART AS IN LIFE

There are girls with tattoos
that go to places you cannot see
for clothes, or they without mirrors

There is art stolen by Nazis
that has never been recovered

There are more
openings than you can attend
more miles
in the Louvre, Prada and Hermitage

Here on the fridge, home from grade 2
notice the use of color and light

ALWAYS FOR THE FIRST TIME

ALWAYS FOR THE FIRST TIME
for Andre Breton

Mary Oliver has written another great poem,

That is to be expected you say
she is a great poet after all

It’s only Houdini
getting out of his chains again
no big deal, he is Houdini isn’t he

Oh no my friends

Notwithstanding there might be
a little less effort each time
a little less pain and pushing
at the beginning and the end
a miracle is still a miracle
no matter how often it happens

Take birth for instance

TEMPIS

TEMPIS

In the caves there are paintings
thirty thousand years old
and the Sistine Chapel has been
around for a while

In Tibet and Arizona
they paint with colored sand

A Cordon Bleu feast
beautiful for a moment
then brushed away

For those who would judge
one as better than the other
I offer
a poem or a psalm
in a long remembered book

Reading it is in column one
hearing it in column two

Or how about a whispered
“I love you” in the ear
is it gone or is it here