"a scene so stark it required a secret knowledge of the pale patina, the majesty and tragedy of the heavy cross, "
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Dao
Dimensions
On
the white picket fence
potholes
of blackness
in
the pickets, in the posts.
These
are not sudden events
but
have grown insidiously in time.
We
find them wide, irregular, deep.
Death
does have dimension,
and
we are always struggling
to
invent the tools of measurement.
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Encountering
Christ And The Magdalene
(after
Rodin; California Palace of the Legion of Honor)
the
amazing qualities of marble
are
what allowed him to deal
with
this, a scene so stark
it
required a secret knowledge
of
the pale patina, the majesty
and
tragedy of the heavy cross,
the
humble head of the Christ
resting
in the cusped arm
of
Mary, while her head
is
drooped in dread into his ribs
don't
you imagine that here
blood
looks like real blood
that
oozed from these wounds
that
sorrow and hope
have
somehow mingled
in
the mind of Rodin
have
driven his chisel by
his
skillful hands
so
many times
across
all this bleached
and
enveloped terrain
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