Monday, January 24, 2022

John Wieners


 


 Poem for Painters

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Pushed on by the incompletion
              of what goes before me
I hesitate before this paper
              scratching for the right words.
 
Paul Klee scratched for seven years
              on smoked glass, to develop
              his line, LaVigne says, look
at his face! he who has spent
             all night drawing mine.
 
       The sun also
rises on the rooftops, beginning
w/ violet. I begin in blue
knowing why we are cool.

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