Terrible?
Actually you know I kind of feel that terrible is against all the rules -
but somehow it works for me.
I love this poem. I'm not sure I entirely know what it is about - I think
there's an artist referred to I can't quite identify. It seems to be to be
all about the terrifying flowers - the objects of beauty and darkness - be
they those of the artist or those of the world. It has a fascination and a
power I can't quite pin down.
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: submission
> Hello Paul -
> If I told you I liked this poem but it was spoilt for me by one word -
would
> you know which word it was?
> best wishes
> SallyE
>
> on 29/10/03 10:43 pm, paul murphy at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Paul Murphy
> >
> > Sketch of a Tractor in Bavarian Landscape
> >>
> >> I am a Munich street artist
> >> spawned by our great father
> >> the father of all street artists.
> >> I paint from postcards
> >> scenes of the Dom,
> >> little sketches of the dancer
> >> Lola Montez and portraits
> >> of Cosima and Richard Wagner.
> >>
> >> I am a Munich street artist
> >> I look at his terrible flowers everyday.
> >> at Odeonsplatz I throw
> >> my coat on the ground
> >> at the space he fell
> >> I can't see the spaces history
> >> falls into, but I can see
> >> his face, the terrible flowers
> >>
> >> that rise up out of the cracks
> >> in the pavement, that fell
> >> where he fell, terrible
> >> flowers that yawn and devour
> >> men. in the Haus der Kunst
> >> a waving woman
> >> on the landscape
> >> a tractor is thrumming
> >>
> >> I am painting the tractor
> >> the terrible flowers
> >> the waving woman
> >> the dancer Lola Montez
> >> Richard and Cosima.
> >> Nietzsche is dying
> >> Achilles is born.
> >> Mars and Venus masturbate
> >>
> >> the flower stems
> >> the terrible tractor
> >> the waving flowers
> >> the thrumming woman
> >> the thrumming waving woman
> >> the stems of the tractor
> >> tyre metal steel plastic leaf oil
> >> observe the terrible thrumming woman
> >>
> >> so that the tractor is born.
> >>
> >
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