Friday, February 13, 2015

O Ever Importunate Wisteria Naked in Winter


In this grey weather the nearest shadows throw
Back confused heads fast against a wall their
Tangled lines moving vaguely into a dim landscape
A love without an object a love without direction
The way winter opens a book maybe a treatise
On Modernist architecture with a photograph
Julius Shulman took one California afternoon he
Climbed some iron gate without caring where
He went but hearing the first sharp note of a bell
He turned his head and saw the structure’s heart
There where all the lines converged where the light
Of God shown on an outside wall and on an inside
Wall he made the light with his camera with his
Rhetoric against the shrillness of deafened words



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