I cannot claim to connect the poem with the postscript, Barry, but I like the sudden jolt appearance of "Landscape" - the juxtaposition of urban graffiti content with "land" and the propriety of such.
Stephen V
--- On Wed, 7/13/11, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Snap Responding to HIS WIDE FACE WITH THOSE INVISIBLE EYES
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 7:50 AM
Recoding
of the painterly gesture as graffiti:
streets and latrines, though rarely signed,
a painterly genre, namely
Landscape,
in which he works.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 7-13-11 (10:48 AM)
I'm still not sure if I'm correctly identifying the subject of last week's snap by Sheila E. Murphy and therefore won't venture to name him (no one did), but I was startled when I searched for photographic images of my reclusive subject (whom I had never seen) and discovered that later in his life he had a broad face. I can't claim that his eyes were invisible (though now they are).
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