Hello Paul,
This I like a lot. I donīt `understandī it in the sense that would imply being able to give a prose approximation, nor do I know the painting it refers to, if there is such a one in the real world, nor the figure of the street artist. There may be answers to these questions that would open up further aspects of the poem (and I may find them later as I notice there are other comments on this piece in my inbox) but at another level this extraneous knowledge is unimportant. The poem works and works powerfully and the world it creates functions and affects the reader without the need for references from the real world. Thatīs what I think, anyway. I particularly liked the surreal atmosphere, the evocation of the narrator and the obsessive, hypnotic repetitions that verge on hysteria in the final stanza.
Best wishes, Mike
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> From: paul murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2003/10/30 Thu AM 12:43:40 EET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: submission
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> 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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