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Kenneth Wolman wrote: > *C.D. Wright Printed in The New Yorker* > > > Always a surprise, the unexpected spectre > turning the corner. > > Recall George Tice's invisible 8 x 10 spy camera > reviving the living Cartier-Bresson, catching > a scowling man in a military greatcoat, > a Rondo Hatton look-alike > rounding a Tallinn streetcorner, > head lowered, glowering at a little boy. > > Account for this street scene not > as something manufactured but as lucky accident, > Tice gone out to shoot doorway gargoyles > but finds his decisive moment in a shock, > gargoyle vivant bearing down on a child. > > Compare and contrast with the apparition > of Wright in a magazine dedicated to the glory > of the Maybach and the Breitling, > the lapidary prose of Adam Gopnik and Alex Ross. > > Ask why she was summoned to this Uptown party > like the Commendatore's statue at > Don Giovanni's Last Supper: knee protruding > through rip-legged jeans, tasting the > faux crabmeat, smoking Camels, drinking Mateus > even if she doesn't touch the stuff, > > the shock of wonderment the surprise of > Caruso grabbing a woman's ass in Central Park > zoo. > > KTW/5-6-2009 > My mistake: last lines should read-- the shock of wonderment the surprise of Caruso grabbing a woman's ass in the Central Park Zoo. -- Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html --------------------------------- "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."--Francine du Plessix Gray