Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Francis Bacon

  1. Introspective

 

Where the sense

Of the everyday withdraws

To the inexperience of knowing you

Revaluating permanently

In lamination

As I see you

As you see me

Physicality becomes conquest

A stimulated apparition of anatomy

A mute exterior

Striving against.

 

 

  1. Faced With Being Lived

 

An excess of genre

Besieged by mania

Declared by provocations

Is fragile and desperate

To a recover a center

Where neither of us are between

Or concentric

But our own phantoms

Filling with our own torment

Under dying

Of absolute value

Taken in the brutality

And the powerlessness

            Of being lived.

 

 

  1. Flinching

 

A rigid need for resemblance

A hazardous echo

Transforms into the blending

Of two referents.

Changing direction

Does not pursue

Or dictate

The chance of a natural logic.

It’s enough to be moving

Pulling off the shelves

The apparent sense

Of being caught in one’s own circle

Of being in consequence.

 

 

  1. Picture Frame

 

What the canvas gives

To the form

Is the anguish

And the heritage

Of weakness

Too great to facilitate

A crude strength

For the manner

Of movement.

The parts concealed

The parts constant

And lacking

Weary, or convinced

That dimension

Is a place

We can’t fully fit.

 

 

  1. Portrait

 

The controlled world of the face

On itself, invents a scale

To spin the imposing others

Into something restless

(like an expression)

who knows its fallible instincts

and hesitates.

at the moment of a photograph

when it’s given

something to be called by

like all other pictures

immediately regrets being

rendered from what is fundamentally invisible

to being named.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment