Sunday, July 16, 2017

Tilt

Tilt

Two statues
carved smooth
from settled marble,
layered in seasons,
shaped to interlock
but apart,
held vertical
by gravity
from Earth
and horizontally
by each other.
Cracking,
their foundations 
tilt.

-Robert L. Jackson III


A picture of a Nathan Sawaya Lego sculpture from the Art of the Bricks exhibit.


15 comments:

  1. They do sound precarious, leaning on each other. Nice to see you, Rob.

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  2. lovely balance to these lines and just a touch of the precarious

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  3. The image is as interesting as your write, I am thinking of Klimt. I saw his golden woman in NY. An interesting artist.

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  4. Yes, it IS a bit reminiscent of Klimt.

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  5. Loved how your words mirrored and painted the images of tilt.

    Donna@LivingFromHappiness

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  6. I think that marble will feel the gravity.

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  7. I can feel the last three lines.

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  8. Some great wordsmithing in this wonderfully constructed extended - and nuanced - metaphor.

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  9. Reminds me of Klimt as well...I loved the idea of how they are held up together..cracking together...

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  10. Though you expressed two,i pictured the tilt of the Eiffel Tower, the idea and the artist, coming alive, held together by gravity

    Lively discussion in your poem, of art becoming.

    Much love...

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  11. Quite a visual...klimptish profundity.

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  12. Nice ekphrastic piece. It hangs on my wall and a friend thought it was a parrot!

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