Article: Maroon, Over Black on Red.(Poem)

 
MAROON, OVER BLACK ON RED 
 
   THRESHOLD 
 
   In the fall of '58 
   at the Whitney, 
   trying to escape 
   a hated critic, 
   he missed the doorway 
   and put both hands 
   through the plate glass: 
   an afterimage 
   of the black grave, 
   forecast in red. 
 
   MAROON 
 
   This is the light 
   through closed eyes: 
   the dark corona 
   fraying the edges 
   of the slammed door; 
   turbulence playing 
   in the face of it all-- 
   the black ingots made 
   from absence, the red 
   drawn from life. 
 
   ART LESSON 
 
   She stood at his 
   burnt windows 
   until she saw herself 
   answered in their dark, 
   the way glass ...

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