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5.17
grey light coming into sky in the window opposite unmade
yellow and blue bed, plane of still dark ridge below it,
white circle of moon in window above it
Wittgenstein asking about “the simple constituent parts of a chair,”
knowing it makes no sense to speak of “the parts of a chair”
Foucault claiming the poem is a system of references, Ponge
thinking that “things are already as much words as things,”
words “as much things as words”
parallel lines of high thin white clouds in pale blue sky above point on right,
gull perched on triangular orange tip of the GROIN sign |
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5.18
robin singing 3-note tyeep on branch in upper left corner,
bright blue of sky behind it, goldfinch perched on curved
copper bar above feeder
Rodin noting “I place the model so that the background light outlines the profile,” which
“is given by the place where the body ends”
woman on left asking about tobacco plant leaves, recalling spelling error
in reference to what woman on the phone said, which sounds
like overheard conversation
blinding silver of sunlight above plane of ridge, white circle of full moon in pale
blue-whiteness of the sky above the point opposite it |
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5.19
circular red-orange flower against green of passion vine-
covered fence in lower left foreground, plane of ridge
behind it, sound of waves breaking in channel
Mike Wallace placing hands on chest when he says “these are not my words,”
then calling Ayatollah Khoumeni “a lunatic”
man on phone noting “I'm being held captive by Indiana Amish,” downed trees on road to Terre Haute, round barns so the devil
couldn't hide in the corners
lines of white water moving in across blue-green plane in right corner,
circular green pine on tip of the point above it |
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5.20
angle of branch slanting to the left across orange blackness
of sky in upper right corner, edge of roof across from it,
half circle of waning white moon overhead
Bush noting “I've always said this would be a long war, not only a long
war but a new kind of war”
Stein insisting on difference between repetition and insistence, which “in its emphasis
can never be repeating,” since it “can never be the same
even when it is most the same”
blue whiteness of haze on horizon to the left of the point, cormorant flapping
across the nearly motionless blue-green plane toward it |
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5.21
grey whiteness of sky in window above the unmade white bed,
line of black wire slanting to the right across it, pigeon
perched on edge of green roof across from it
Sheryl Crow repeating “I'm going to soak up the sun,” concluding “I've
got my 45 on so I can rock on”
Ashbery noting that Stein's inrush of clarity is an aesthetic experience, a description
of which “applies to ‘real-life' situations, the aesthetic
problem being a microcosm of all human problems”
orange circle of sun rising above plane of ridge on left, blue-
white sky reflected in motionless grey plane below it |
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5.22
vertical yellow edge of building in grey-whiteness of sky
in upper left corner, brick-red plane below it, yellow-
beaked bird pecking up green from pot on fire escape
Smithson claiming writing on art replaces presence
with absence, “abstraction of language for the real thing”
Coleridge thinking “poem should be both obscure and clear,”
Ponge wanting it “to introduce to human thought traits
which are not beyond its capacity”
red brick edge of building against grey-white sky in upper right
foreground, pigeon flapping up across behind it |
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5.23
rectangular flat black plane to the left of the sandstone-
colored wall in right corner, edge of black forest green
roof below it, pigeon flapping up to the left across it
man on phone noting bird that sits in a tree at corner
of Bush and Webster, which begins to sing at around 1AM
woman on left wanting a very dry martini with Bombay gin,
recalling “I've been on phone with fact checkers all week,
some of whom are women I call ‘fact checkeresses'”
brick
red edge of building against grey-white sky in upper left
corner, bird gliding toward circular green tree below it
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5.24
edge of sandstone-colored building against brick-red plane
in lower left foreground, pigeon disappearing behind it,
grey-white sky tilting down toward it
Paul Desmond practicing for weeks very fast, noting “I wanted to sound
like a dry martini”
man in black sweatshirt recalling scattering father's ashes into headwaters of the Kern
River, who'd asked for that 17 years before, adding
“it was so private and so gigantic”
rectangular green glass plane against grey-whiteness of sky
on the right, bright pink metal wall below it |
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5.25
circular yellow-orange flower against white wall in right
foreground, edge of dark green roof in window on the left,
sound of cars in the street below it
man in the woman's sequined dress looking back at the pianist, confessing “I
haven't felt this good since our heyday in 1967”
Madame X looking over her left shoulder, a strap originally falling
across powdered right shoulder, Sargent noting “I suppose
it is the best thing I have ever done”
triangular grey glass plane against grey whiteness of sky in upper left
corner, wind in leaves of circular green tree below it |
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5.26
edge of rectangular brick-red wall against grey-white sky
in upper right corner, angle of black wire slanting across
from it, drops splashing up from darker grey plane below it
man in black leather jacket speaking Polish into cell phone,
having had 9 front teeth capped in Poznan
Marsden Hartley writing postcard to Gertrude Stein about numbers in Germany,
claiming “I have seen some wonderful ones here, especially
a green 3”
grey whiteness of sky reflected in vertical grey glass wall in the upper left corner, shadowed red
brick plane of building in foreground across from it |
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