The sum of art
is a mirror a lens of creation the artist biography
the situated paint is a story [pause]
color plus art plus context and
were the poet the artist [what is color to the poet]
the fallen leaves beneath the snow I assume
[I assume]
and it were music for the wind the texture of the environment is a studio
sterile and readied for installation
conditions nor conditions [the unconditional]
Enter the gallery the owned gallery
the sum of art is a spot among spots the rubric of change is
within walls a containment
[the invitation] they go forward with a heaved being
there is one thing I remember about time it is
now
nor confuse time with space [my unblinking eyes] [I see time marked in color]
the surface the etched lines the light but
it is not I who calls art art
the poet the title assumes language
the common space of a wall is an invitation
is a resolve to the barren the void
rests quietly [they walk past] [arrange for the art to be changed every ninety days] says coffee
the permanent will not change will not degrade
context the walls fall down first
the sum of art is model to reproduction all of
poetry is ekphrastic all of material is ekphrastic [how I am conditioned] what it is I declare original
