Monday, April 20, 2020

On Joseph Cornell

I admire Joseph Cornell, so I wrote this.

On Joseph Cornell

Constellations mapped in star-fish,
Spheres explaining.
Spirals from the edge of sky
Conclude, obscured.
Things in proximity
Edge past the names of things.

Obsessive in the coming,
The vision won’t speak life, but dreams
Copulating.
Then structure (intimate) cohere,
And symmetry is replicated.

Niches of happened things,
Stacked perimeters,
Bird, shell, arm of tree
Reflect on where the idea of it lives.
Item-icon tooled
In flecks of story not his own.

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