Altered Photograph. The Golden Chain of Sabbath Sunday Melodies, 1861.
The Golden Chain
A poem is going to happen
right there
where you
were just standing.
Picasso
Threnody
Collage: Alan Saret ” Lead Cable, Gold Crown” 1983; photocopy of vintage snapshot.
A poem is going to happen
it will be embraced by the cognoscenti.
Image: Lucas Samras, “Reconstruction #28,” 1977; Vintage snapshot.
An Uneasy Siesta
Collage
Leavetaking
Diebenkorn, Willson, Richard Aldington
Lost in the Stars
Collage: Richard Aldington, George Axelrod, Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson, Alan Paton, Scribner illustration.
A poem is going to happen
how many times must I tell you?
Garbo
The Shadowy Third
I had left the dream cloaked in want and waltz-music.
Berta Ruck: The Wrong Mr. Right.
Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger, The Prisoner of Zenda, 1952.
A poem is going to happen
it is
silent, like an ancient stone
St. George, circa 1300, Porta S. Giorgio, Florence
Postpoetical 