Wednesday, July 17, 2013

THE TALL FIGURES OF GIACOMETTI





 
 
"The Tall Figures of Giacometti"
by  May Swenson
 
 
We move by means of our mud bumps.
We bubble as do the dead but more slowly.
 
The products of excruciating purges
we are squeezed out thin hard and dry.
 
If we exude a stench it is pertrified sainthood.
Our feet are large crude fused together
 
solid like anvils.  Ugly as truth is ugly
we are meant to stand upright a long time
 
and shudder without motion
under the scintillating pins of light
 
that dart between our bodies
of pimpled mud and your eyes.
 
 
Image above, "City Square", bronze, by Alberto Giacometti, 1948.
"The Tall Figures of Ciacometti",  by May Swenson.
 
 
 


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