terrible is a translation of the German schrecklich in this context
maybe it doesn't have quite the same effect
look deeper into the painting of the tractor
do you see a space station listing off Saturn
daisychains of cosmic rotating Gyres
all the technics of civilisation
creation
>From: Helen Clare <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: submission
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:41:57 -0000
>
>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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