Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex (Larry Levis Poems)
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
She sleeps and rests on innocent sand.Koumba Tam sleeps. A green palm veils the hair fever, copper forehead bendsclosed eyelids, double ...
Petulant priests, greedycenturions, and one millionincensed gestures standbetween your love and me.Your agape sacrificeis reduced to colored glass,vapid penance, and ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
STUDY IN WHITES Wax-white- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. The ...
—for my fatherYesterday was Sunday. Your grandsonstared at your feet and foundthe eclipse that moved for yearsacross your nails. He ...
Study in Whites Wax-white -- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. ...
The vivid color fading the horizon losing color heading toward dusk at the falling of the sun The reds and ...
Just a few flakes drifting down, against a patina of white the world waiting for the storm all quiet, in ...
The world out my window awash in a milk bath muted, cold a gray patina, snow coming January 8, 2010 ...
In the hands of his captors, in the dark of night no one beside him, alone, from their sight aware ...
Yellow dust, a patina of pollen covering the cars below the ancient oak planted long before the city grew, the ...
A hillside, white birch, maples, poplar red patina, wash overlaid over the white, the gray buds erupting, a hillside ablaze ...
The world, the grass, the roads the woods, were all snow glazed trimming, coated, in white a bit cleaner, more ...
A gray patina, a wash over the day the colors of my vision cold, waiting for December rain rushes, ancient ...
A patina of haze filled my vision hung heavy in the shimmering air high in the nineties they said but ...
Technically it is an oxidation a patina of green over the pure metal beneath some would argue a mere fact ...
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
There are places where the eye can starve, But not here. Here, for example, is The Piazza Navona, & here ...
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