Sunday, June 14, 2009

Brothers In Light



On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show

they talk down through
the centuries to us,
and this we need more and more,
the statues and paintings
in midnight age
as we go along
holding dead hands.

and we would say
rather than delude the knowing:
a damn good show,
but hardly enough for a horse to eat,
and out on the sunshine street where
eyes are dabbled in metazoan faces
i decide again
that in theses centuries
they have done very well
considering the nature of their
brothers:
it's more than good
that some of them,
(closer really to the field-mouse than
falcon)
have been bold enough to try.

Charles Bukowski

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't that be "in these centuries"?
I'm not nit picking I'm just trying to get a clear meaning. Nice picture by the way, such handsome fellows and with such well established shadows.

Green of Eye, Sharp of Claw said...

@Donal:

"in theses centuries" is how it was written and published. Far be it for me to edit a writers word. Especially when it's one whose work i love dearly.

Thanks for the comment on the photo!

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