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Speculating Rothko
The painting is by Russian-American artist Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970). He did not title the work.
The great, distressing monolith
wavers on the edge,
a quiversome hell in its hull
and melting heaven in its prow.
The shapes sometimes repeat themselves
as if a time distortion stands
between us and now. What I am seeing
with my cracked religious mind,
my comfort seeking always the vagueness of
the past, is the original desert prophet,
not shaped to suit a human eye,
not flames in a thicket nor pillars of stone,
but colours merging, separating, and trembling...
an approximation of the throne.
The great, distressing monolith
wavers on the edge,
a quiversome hell in its hull
and melting heaven in its prow.
The shapes sometimes repeat themselves
as if a time distortion stands
between us and now. What I am seeing
with my cracked religious mind,
my comfort seeking always the vagueness of
the past, is the original desert prophet,
not shaped to suit a human eye,
not flames in a thicket nor pillars of stone,
but colours merging, separating, and trembling...
an approximation of the throne.
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