Category Archives: Poetry and Art

Idol

Posted on July 13, 2011 by ubu507

The Eye, too afire with my youthful errors, Whirled like a weathercock, without design: When suddenly (what delight, what terrors) My Basilisk, now sharpening its sights, Pierced Body, & Heart, put Reason to flight, Lancing deep into the Soul of … Continue reading →

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Jupiter and Semele

Posted on July 1, 2011 by ubu507

from The Loves of Jupiter After Michiel Coxie I After Marcantonio (School of) Print made by Virgil Solis Date 1530-1562 British Musuem Much as the Sun causes each thing To lie so clearly before our eyes, To linger too long on … Continue reading →

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The Arrow

Posted on June 29, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Léon Davent After Francesco Primaticcio Date 1540-1545 The British Museum Pricked to the quick by conscience, And loathing my little worth, I know of no art or proper science That might keep me from self-hurt, This grief so … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Lady

Posted on June 18, 2011 by ubu507

Artist Unknown about 1650 Indianapolis Museum of Art The more I run my eyes over the art And skill of such portraiture, The more I admire, & adore the Heavens That realize this lovely Creature, The perfection of whose every … Continue reading →

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Wolverine Baby

Posted on June 15, 2011 by ubu507

Nursing this flash of you Like a wolverine baby Whose jaws will not surrender The white bite of your thighs

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Backwards Map

Posted on June 7, 2011 by ubu507

Backwards map Always appropriate Everything becomes you Legs unfolding the creases Tracing the boundaries of Desire’s Crossing locating The New Ford of the Heart Informing the empty spaces Of this Burned Over District . But I conflate legend and scale … Continue reading →

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I’ll Be Your Mirror

Posted on May 24, 2011 by ubu507

RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Venus at a Mirror c. 1615 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Mirror, you always hang there on your nail To receive her image in your brightness: And here my heart waits for … Continue reading →

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The Remorse of Orestes or Orestes Pursued by the Furies

Posted on May 21, 2011 by ubu507

 a 1862 oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), dimensions 227 cm x 278 cm, located in Chrysler Collection, Norfolk, Virginia At divers times, days, months, hours at a spell, Hour into moment, moment without close, Within my Soul, O … Continue reading →

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Diana and Endymion

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ubu507

Johann Michael Rottmayr Austrian, 1654-1730  1690/95 Art Institute of Chicago As brown dusk blackens into night And Somnus slowly lulls the Earth, Buried in the shadow of my Curtains, A dream comes to set my spirit free To be admitted … Continue reading →

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Apollo and Daphne

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ubu507

after Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga Italian, 1501-1547 late 16th century Art Institute of Chicago Though seen to be carefree beyond measure, I am as wretched as I’ve been in years, Your gentle words, yes, still give me pleasure … Continue reading →

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