Sunday, November 2, 2014

EKPHRASIS, ANYONE?

My (online) friend, the Dutch artist Gerrit Joost de Jonge sent me some images of recent paintings and invited me (along with others) to respond "ekphrasitcally" with a poem.  ("Ekphrasis: a literary description of or commentary on a work of art.") Here's Joost's picture:

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 Here's my poem:

THE ACT OF LOVE
Shall we say
bodies?  Shall we say
a coming-together
of the flesh?  Here
there is woman’s
womb, here man’s
penetration; here
the passion of union,
the inimitable ecstasy
of that intense
moment of creation,
flesh, paint, it is
all one, all one.
Shall we say
the act of love?

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