accumulations

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a good try

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canned

canned poetry you dont have to worry about hidden meanings= the poetry is all on the outside of the can

sawing ever upwards

seeing

girl harpist playing Mozart cool bright morning

couple downstairs at it again slamming

door

pedal harp one string

about to go navigates

some tasty modulations

with aplomb in Takapuna carpark

Sunday worth the dollar

morning market

sunglasses $10 $20 polarized

who wd think to test them

mixed grain loaf Toyota Echo

Gordon W]alters

Auckland Art Gallery << Now showing in/ [new line] HEI KONEI MAI:/WE'LL MEET AGAIN / Row of 32 or so blue full stops / MAIN GALLERY, /GROUND FLOOR >> 2 in red circle ref to plan of Gallery<Patere 1977>> description is derived from Curator's Description on gallery's registration details - http://collection.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/results.jsp?view=detail&pos=1&id=14912 - gallery website says no image available for website - but is reproduced nevertheless in gallery newsletter ---- would it be foolish to expect from newsletter image frameless bleeding its whites into surrounding white page to see image 27 horizontal stripes mainly black & white with circles appended variously in printer's inks applied 85 x 66 mm on white gallery wall image which then would take large expanse of white as ground to which blacks have been subsequently applied as figures on ground interesting as they say image for hei kone mai colon new line we'll meet again ? who's we ? read intrusions of white outgrowths fern frond canoe prow living attached to body of progenitor group or frond finished completed circles see how numerous how lined up apparently all interlocking within black field yet note one greyish about 1 black to 7 white mixture cirrcle isolated between two whites yet reading so and more so and more blacks pushed to edge inequalities inequities as if Gordon painting in NZ Aotearoa white liberal scholar wife translator into literary English of Maaori poetry wdn't notice such obvious allegorical possibility pains to get every edge distinct avoiding complications artist persona decorative taste distraction politics so evident Gordon did not elucidate next door Maaori neighbour asked me to confirm that I was a pacifier maybe yes as Eldridge Cleaver Malcom X used to ask of liberal intellectuals not appeasement of black but voicing concern as white with government policy as here now deploring lack of care in Auckland City Council Art Gallery with about 100 staff employed for cataloguing and registering for what is announced same page as [large blue lettered heading]<Patere1977/[smaller black type] Acquisitions text includes text<<...The title Patere has many/meanings in Maori, but in this case can be interpreted as a chant because of the painting's fluid, melodic quality...[other works named] of the same year have a similar sense of harmony and balance>>language vague abstract <> only justifiable as acutely paradoxical liquid viscose or not 'dried' on this painting in 1977 <> unspeciified way of reading painting as musical score <>can be attributed to any work whatever with a little ingenuity this text effectively helps people to slop while distracting them from issues of serious import on Waitangi Day & every day honour the treaty & honour those who seek to honour it by meditating on it as painter Gordon did for about 40 years effort recuperated in NZ official culture by formalist autonomy critical language & address to anyone who could read discouraged also for Maaori by attack on Walters as racist appropriator for arty formalism thus failing to attempt to read his paintings as messages to government with paintings structured as coded for relations between competing pairs looking more like backgammon than chess noticeably gridded in to zones by simple implied divisions and/or golden mean but always the competing light dark inerlocked within one territory each painting asks for an answer to the question is this how it looks in NZ Aotearoa with identity groups signatories to a treaty but also image can be laid over relationship in a marriage or good and evil nature and culture body and soul mind and senses or any such duality cheers T

...cordless Minerva / Perseus

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THE FUGITIVE

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harmonium key-bed spinet vocables leak lip thrust tory toy spade
whack cousin .44 cold steal code sleet tinsel spaghetti guest-room
ceiling triple mattress bang back ceiling triple knock wake upstairs
mother expects lover knock lubricant spill emergent ration-book jet-
stream 20/20 9/11 ten bob down duck under studied Dylan Thomas
Bob Dylan Thomas Schwarzenegger tall tales come buckets escape
mask wig eye-patch hook inconspicuous Piccadilly Line dampness sleet
sheet lime-juice perspire as if nothing

The Naked Lady - La Délivrance

Proposed alterations in London to the intersection of Golders Green Rd, Regents Park Rd, North Circular Rd, has prompted some interest in the nearby bronze sculpture by Emile Guillaume of La Délivrance. See <a href=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/archive/display.var.212262.0.story_of_the_naked_lady.php>Naked Lady</a>

I lived in nearby Chessington Avenue when I was a child in the late 1930s through the 1940s. In 1979 in a collection of poems called "untold angels" I published the following:

THE NAKED LADY  [2 songs

the naked lady

is made of bronze

the naked lady

has a sword in her right

hand the naked lady

stretches her sword up to heaven

on VJ night L.....D.......who is

six foot something & my aunt's cousin

put a bra & panties on the naked

lady while he was in his cups

the naked lady stands at Henly's Corner

on the North Circular

the naked lady haunted

my school days

from Golders Green to Henly's Corner

you went by trolleybus

& the conductor always said

anyone for

the naked

lady. I used

to live by

the naked lady

she stood in the

rain she stood in

the snow she stood

as my mnother & I

crosing over the road

slipped over

on black ice

no more of

the naked lady

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Accumulation: what's going on

no accident that my list 'on my table' [see the pink right hand margin] is the catalogue/essay book to go with the New Gallery [Auckland]'s current big show for Auckland Festival '05 'mixed-up childhood' curated by Janita Craw and Robert Leonard next to Rebecca West's 'The Fountain Overflows' not in current reprint as Amazon might wish but in a $1 first edition rescued from a 2nd hand shop childhood seen as a humiliating disguise my summer preoccupation fed further by Tom Hanks movie 'The Road to Perdition' on TV this week child discovers father's hidden occupation as an enforcer and Iris Murdoch's novel also $1 'An Unoffical Rose' noone knows what anyone else is feeling except the author all hinges on a pubescent girl secretly in love Miranda who deliberately leaps from high up in a tree echoed by photographer in this show Yvonne Todd's childhood leaps from high in a tree this new preoccupation with childhood ahead even of my Poussin blog or disastrous Black Caps but words of all of which with salty admixture of TV 'Business News' 'weather forecast' glimmer on page 8 of 'Swingin' Town' notebook latest accumulation' ...arcs slovenly light your being alone back time to show magic cough vacillating illusion tonnage to carry that volume shie at the stumps his finger up the low-down frost sound of folded sheep a destination as a product training exercise tossed aside dragging the chain hard-pressed a lean overnight mouth-watering wrap meningococcal B leverage going forward look at all options in place powering up this year's extravaganza ephebophiles.... 

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