Mathematical

Curved, straight, geometric-cone

Sphere, ball, smoother stone

All identity removed

All emotion removed

Stood still; upright and straight

Defiant

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Self Portrait

Reds, browns, yellows, oranges, greens

Cream, did you say cream

These were your colours were they Z-B?

Modigliani, Matisse, Alexander Archipenko

Auguste Rodin, Rodin did you say

And these were your eminent contemporaries Z-B?

I step sideways besides a Giacometti

Forwards, there a Pablo Picasso; Tête de Femme

Sideways Giacometti, straight ahead Pablo Picasso

Slow down, stand back, take a breath

At the entrance, on the wall - a self portrait

The pastel chiselled features of a most attractive younger man

A short life, she the second part of your name

A woman almost twice your age, such life in a short life

Home thoughts from abroad, in your own self portrait

Context: Your contemporaries live forever

Pretext: The war came, you never…

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Gaudier-Brzeska Line

Cut it straight

Point out the detail

Turn the corner

Sharp

The war is upon us

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Tied

If ever

One

If ever

Two together

One

If ever

To treasure untethered

Two if ever

One

Together

One

If ever

Together with love

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Homespun

Construct and construct again

Shave away the viewpoint

Open a door, open a window

Bring me to your close quarters

Take me by the hand

You already have my mind

Take me to your meadow

I won’t, I will not decline

Lay down the fragrance of death

Pick up the dead or dying

Fold, pile, compress

Tease out with clinical precisions

Leave me a little gentler

A small space in my pastoral mind

An impression deep in my psyche

A place for future incisions

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