I'm afraid I don't know the painting or painter here. Do I need to know to
really get this poem? And if so does that devalue the poem as a piece of art
in its own right.
The old chestnut really - but possibly worth chewing over once more!
H
PS: prefer masturbate to copulate. Much kinkier and more startling.
----- Original Message -----
From: paul murphy <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: submission
> 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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