There's art history, and there's the history of art.
Art history, you can learn anywhere these days;
the history of art's some other, thrilling thing, a life-blood
pumping its heart intensely as if it were a matter
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I often see small pieces of the world, and events seem disconnected to my ignorant eye, whereas in fact they are secretly linked. You connect and in your interpretation everything has resonance. To read such poetry is mind-expanding. Julia
Thanks for that comment, and respect for one who knows more about life and death than most of us...
This is one for the books. Record it and get it podcast. That is how it would best be enjoyed. Most excellent.
Nice poem. Learned some things. Liked the third stanza repeating at the end. Thank you.
As someone who paints, writes poetry and has had her life saved by these very things...I know what you mean...