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Ribbons fall from seconds
Catch me At the top of the clock At the day’s middle end beginning Dionysus, I am an Onlooker, storyteller Tragedy-filler Have you had your fill? You have taken the form To its limits Here, from the days passing I am impressed You have outdone yourselves. Outdone into undone You are ribbons Unravelling at the seconds Here, from the days passing I am impressed
[reflection]
There is a horror in the eye of the woman in the first painting, which caught me. The medium's simplicity (pencil) gives the work a juvenal feeling, furthering the horror's effect - it is in such a stark contrast to its medium. If this had been in a thick oil paint, I’m not sure it would have had the same effect. I chose this work because of the terror evoked - the same felt by the narrator, onlooker, storyteller, and tragedy-filler.
The second work by the Polish surrealist Bolesław Biegas captures an extravagance I wanted to convey in the poem. The extremity of the woman’s pose feels lavish in the context of the full painting, furthered by the use of light and character. The onlooker's full coverage and reserve places this pose and relative reveal of the woman into increased extremity. It is this extremity from which I wanted to draw. We have outdone ourselves.
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— S
The first drawing reminds of a succubus slythe that slips through the darkness to devour the darkness. The second painting of a Dionysus supplicant enraptured before the goddess Demeter an fertility will rise with expectation that surpasses desire.