21 April

Day 21 (1)

No prompt 

Ekphrastic poem  -inspired by Yayoi Kusama


Kusamapoem      

When my eyes are tired, I can confirm the world
is made entirely of dots crammed together-
polka and microbial, spawn and pore
From a distance, everything blurs,
because the camera eye can't quite define joy or despair
I think it might be a new view of infinity, 
this positioning and questioning of mirrors,
a woman's view – zoom from the telescopic 
to the microscopic and tomorrow  and the next day
as the pattern makes us

Right now, we are considering the microbes
as a virus so very very  little ,
the drops of oil on water, sliding never mixed
the painted woman on a painted horse,
the explosion and the last tram in Hiroshima still travels,
that is the relationship, that is the mesh
between the patterned and the linear,
memory and amnesia, forgetting
what’s forgotten, colours primary,
as the pattern spins us

Slipping between the fields of vision
the same as when you rub your eyes 
with the heel of palm until it hurts
and all the suns’ great light is pale,
the clotted powder on the goddess’ face,
how we survive the concentrated 
light, tracing the tenderness of  things,
things near in exquisite detail so that
outside, hallucination flickers, quite unreal
as unpattern unmakes us

Can we, of all these nightmares and spilled makeup-
penicillin , constellation , fractal, amoebic
make of this, a microcosm  -
poppyflowers in above skies seen
red dot red dot red dot yellow backdrop?
Poppy seeds and spores your tongue, its buds
breaking down the printer dpi for copying
and all of this, made of this,
we repetition replication beings will keep
dissolving as the same pattern remakes us

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