Transparent Words - Poetry

 
Kaditzsch Sculptures / Lawrence Upton
 
A circle with two little indentations in it - one rectangle at each pole - mapped to a set of points, each at a right-angle to all others; spun within a hollowed wider circle which spins within a circle hollowed wider still.
 
A rectangle at an oblique angle, one corner in light, a flaw across the other end.
 
A cylinder collapsing outwards into a sphere full of observant eyes. A tower of empty air. A temporary window made of perspex. A camouflaged bunker in which one eye is visible, once it has been pointed out. The eye becomes a four-petalled flower; and, in the centre of the flower, glowing fiery suns within a cerulean blue. Gold flame descends from that blue upon a single thread of heat rolling out of the fire itself as spider's web emits from the spider, liquid hardening into viscous and elastic flame. A bowl of flowers upon plain paving. A daddy-long-legs of enormous proportions.
 
4-sided shapes, roughly square, jostling each other to ensure that they became part of a mosaic; and sea intrudes, cutting them through with a clean curving line which is one side of the mosaic; a wall of rough squares unfolds towards the bottom of sea and spreads. Very soon, the sea is tiled in.
 
A line of wounds, each parallel to all others, winds around a wooden palisade, which follows a river. Everything within the biosphere bleeds.
 
A transparent cylinder penetrates a white surface, making, from here, a green ellipse. A black and white head emerges from the green. The neck and all the back of the head are black - denoting? - and the frontal areas are white. He's really gobbed out the white on the right there.

 

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