Article: The Black Square.(Poem)

 
After Malevich 
 
Does The Underground City really float in clouds? 
If you'd passed through it, 
you too would know that everything 
has been unplugged 
and plugged back in: the collapsibility of shadows, 
though they describe a complete arc; 
the left auricle of my heart, 
which had the dimensions of a black square, 
was it too one of those uninhabitable rooms 
that floated high up above us, 
nevertheless illuminated, 
in which I slept? (Notes from The Radiant City: 
a black square is the x-ray of a halo, 
its own gravitational mass having collapsed--) 
I left you there, with your decapitated, 
bronzed head rolled to one side; the black rose 
you shook from your hair 
having ...

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