Lovely Sheila
(& wouldn’t want Alice Martin as a mother-in-art, eh?
As someone without a phone, & only Fb to contest with, I don’t have to negate too much, use ignore it as I run down my news feed.
But those square patterns, so gentle on the eyes, can make one elsewhere, quietly but insistently, as the poem then does, too.
Doug
(who thinks he once mentioned he, too, in a snap)
> On Nov 20, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Good move, Sheila, filtering out the shite. I have issues at c6/c7 and have
> had recourse to circumin which trumps (whoops, that word) ibuprofen if
> taken in regular doses. Agnes Martin was new to me, thanks for the link,
> Patrick. We did see Sol LeWitt’s work in the French Goog years ago, whose
> work I note has been bracketed with Martin’s.
>
> ‘chastening the light’ is good.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 5:46 am, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Agnes Martin
>> Fine art artist
>>
>>
>> Description
>>
>> Agnes Bernice Martin was a Canadian-born American abstract painter. Her
>> work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and
>> silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a
>> minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract
>> expressionist.Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Martin>
>> On 20/11/2019 17:54, Sheila Murphy wrote:
>>> My news feed knows me
>>> Cleanses my screen
>>> of poor hair and raspy voicebox
>>> Replaced by better points of power
>>>
>>> I read ideas
>>> I read healing
>>> I read everything from chastity to lust fests
>>> of the soul minus the tedium of takers
>>>
>>> Who bore us and subtract.
>>> Meantime, the field of energy
>>> Is multipled
>>> Reverts to joy
>>>
>>> Reflexively
>>> I view square patterns
>>> Brush my eyes across a higher grade
>>> of yellow powder chastening the light
>>>
>>> Sheila E. Murphy
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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