Richard Diebenkorn – Berkeley #57
incendiary convergence, blood-dark magnolia
caught in a wounded harvesting, profound incursion,
an exile – suicide volition in a fading Arcadia
oscillating secrets, pleasure traversal
dreaming plunge on a transparent, violet night
blue smoke ushers a vestigial solemnity
(the text intervenes -
a mutilation which language
supports and denounces*)
cavernous figurations, internal adorations
aesthetic conceptions underscoring
an invented landscape
elegant silence of seclusion’s verdancy
ephemeral horizon, an evasive, mirrored shore-line
inclination, reflection, formidable curiosity
abstraction of Diebenkorn’s expressive,
succulent brush-strokes
dancing exclamations of luminosity
hieroglyphs of absence enabling
an atmosphere of poetic contingency
glistering disquisitions, light echoes – shadow colors
bewitching lexicons, internal archways of lavish resemblances
banished beauty, castles built on unbounded mists
pale branches atop evasive stones, incommensurate
reaching toward scorched estuaries
impenetrable worlds of hearth ash
remains of an intense art
painted mountains, the apparent vanguards,
figurative defacements of a gestating destiny
* from Anne-Marie Albiach’s The Wasting Away “of Chance”
posted for Charles Miller’s dVerse prompt Meeting the Bar: Form for All and was created following a random method of word selection (including allowing another poet to choose words) from multiple texts and then arranging them poetically. The texts include the complete novels of Jane Austen, Women’s Poetry in France 1965-1995 translated by Michael Bishop, Possession by A.S. Byatt, American Hybrid A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, Gerhard Richter Paintings from Private Collections, and Richard Diebenkorn The Berkeley Years 1953-1966. Please join us at dVerse Poets Pub.
