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ekphrasis

Tall Yellow Poem

(after Tall Yellow Man, 2003, Stephen Bird, Wollongong Art Gallery)

(Dear reader, the layout of this poem is important — I did my best with wordpress, but if words go a wandering on your screen, it’s available here as a pdf).

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December 25, 2020January 18, 2021 peterfrankiswrites
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The seductive loveliness of perspective

Saint Jerome in his Study, Antonella da Massina c. 1475

On any screen my attention drifts 
whether it’s girls online or the official denials
a reporter hunched in a bunker
or reading the accounts, I’m looking 

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December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Into the blue (the Tomb of the Diver, 470 BCE)

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winter trees incline
a wall disappearing Continue reading →

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July 12, 2020July 14, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Archaeological (Flora AD 79)

Flora

she has her back to us

her neck, bare feet mid-stride
house girl / nymph / Primavera / PR goddess
turned to reconsider some old weed Continue reading →

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May 5, 2020May 8, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Ekphrasis – Unfold

Joy-Hester-Girl with dog

Joy Hester, Girl with Dog, 1957.

 

There’s neither girl nor dog
just a desert of colours
cut by lines like erosion channels. Continue reading →

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June 22, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Ekphrasis 1.

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Sorting the Table

Soon enough a storm of language
will overcome (t)his hallucinatory
made in the shadow of a buxom pear. Continue reading →

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March 20, 2018August 27, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Landscape with the fall of Icarus

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Because I couldn’t get
to the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,
given the flights
and the season Continue reading →

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September 20, 2017September 22, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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