David and Renee own an art gallery. Renee is also an artist. One of her joys is giving local artists an opportunity to display, and sell, their art. Today is Renee's birthday.
INTERIOR-EXTERIOR FORMS
(Henry Moore, 1951)
A white porcelain bishop stands
to belie the infirmity.
The ripe pomegranate and
burnt toast are vying
for pyretic position.
I keep entering rooms
filled with toppled Giacomettis
while and exquisitely simple melody
persists in a Dorian mode.
Orange demilunes, whose
diaphanous membrane sheaths
with delicate restraint
the secret of the fruit,
lie on the black plate
like setting fireballs
caught in the fenestration
of a certain perspective.
A blue-veined blonde with long
neck follows my every move.
Milk drips on the floor in
perfectly random patterns of
Chekhovian dramaturgy.
Finally, you lead me by the hand
into the backside of the mirror,
“this strange key,” Borges calls it,
where evisceration is the only way
to see what is inside.
Happy Birthday Renée.
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