Showing posts with label Burnt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burnt. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Burnt

Drawn to something familiar here
In this burnt out burnt down burnt through place:
Rock keeps its cool, its hard meltdown space
Wherein equally cold and heat appear
Ribbed like sunsets or smooth young night sky.
And here creatures four-limbed two-eyed died
Or alive yet head on to a safe side,
Human-shaped some of them walking like why.
Something familiar on oblong screen
Away where stingy light breaks dingy smoke
In city certainty still talking green:
Water, first specks flecks then torrents then floods
White out hail white white right through creeks broke
At impressionable speeds where white floats.


Photograph: detail of a b&w work by Keith Haring currently in the safety of the NGV.