Southern Seas by cage-mind on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I needed to step back from Cage’s image, to reflect

I seriously struggle with all-things poetry (I find poetry very challenging) . . . but nevertheless, after a day’s reflection on this image . . .

An old poem came to mind . . . maybe not in the least inspired . . . but it really felt right/solid to me, for this image . . . feels so descriptive for this specific Cage-creation

TITLE: A Glimpse

* A glimpse through an interstice caught,

* Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,

* Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,

* A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,

* There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.

Walt Whitman published “A Glimpse” in the 1860 edition of his poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”

. . . feels good to me