I really like this poem, Sharon. Found it enhanced on your blog by the
pictures.
I looked in vain for the horse. Such a vivid description - but I'm missing
something as I don't know why it is there.
Sue
At 01:06 AM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>Sharon Brogan wrote:
>
>>First one must find a concept
>>large enough to contain the entire
>>city: 'Saffron', perhaps, or 'Gate'.
>>The horse pulls its head into
>>its neck, making its body an
>>S below the gibbous moon.
>>Cover the river in grey silk. Let
>>the building reinvent itself
>>in soft satin curves. Owls
>>resent this impersonation
>>of their essence, feathers
>>cloaking coldness and no
>>blood. Let mice run beneath
>>the strutted floors, the gilded
>>ceilings arched like stars over
>>nothing. Nothing in this sky
>>is identified, so let it be
>>that.
>>--
>>Sharon Brogan
>>http://www.sbpoet.com
>>
>Be assured, Sharon, your poem was infinitely better than the Gates
>themselves. The prevailing opinion in New York seems to be "What a
>wonder." I don't share it. We went up to the City yesterday, my S.O.'s
>birthday. Better to have gone into the Museum and walked through the
>Rubens drawing exhibition. There was a great sense of so-whatness about
>it. Sheets of very attractive cloth (it felt like tapestry) hanging
>from poles. Maybe the point was magnitude: 23 miles of anything by
>itself is impressive. Yet Central Park itself is a wonder sans Gates:
>people, dogs at play (count the breeds, win a prize), horses,
>iceskaters, snow covering the lawns and ice partially covering the duck
>pond...which answers Holden Caulfield's ever-popular(?) question of
>where the ducks go when winter comes: they quack their freakin' brains
>out and the water-dogs like Labs want to get at them. I admit I took a
>bunch of pictures (digital cameras=instant gratification+lying exposure
>readings) which I may put on my website when I offload them from the
>camera.
>
>It is supposed to be off-limits to ask what an artist's intention was,
>but I'm asking anyway. I gather Christo and Jean-Claude have done a lot
>of international wrapping in years past; I simply found myself unmoved
>except by the sheer size and expanse of the thing.
>
>Hardly a lost day. We headed downtown to The Blue Note on West 3rd
>Street. Someone had given us free tickets to sit stand-side and listen
>to Eddie Palmieri's band. Nothing indifference-making about that: the
>music was fantastic. I may recover some of my hearing later today but
>I'm not taking any bets.
>
>Ken
>
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