Perspective

I walk
across the ceiling
of the DIA Center
for the Arts
surrounded

by Welsh Oaks,
Rodney Graham’s
photos of leafless trees
growing up from
the sky.

The tangles
of limbs & branches
anchored in the clouds
converge to support
the trunks
&
the spread
of tentacle roots obscured
by the weight of the world,
suspended above
the sky.

Trees keep
the earth from falling,
while artists & poets
can see the world turned
upside down.

They keep
their feet floating over
the ground, with their heads
planted firmly in
the clouds.

Submited by

Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 12:32

Poesia :

Your rating: None (1 vote)

poetpete

poetpete's picture
Offline
Title: Membro
Last seen: 8 years 20 weeks ago
Joined: 05/03/2011
Posts:
Points: 936

Add comment

Login to post comments

other contents of poetpete

Topic Title Repliessort icon Views Last Post Language
Poesia/Poetrix The American Theater of the Absurd 0 2.758 05/15/2011 - 19:24 English
Poesia/Poetrix Un-punctuated Overflow 0 1.746 05/16/2011 - 01:16 English
Poesia/Intervention Intervention (for Russ) 0 3.572 05/16/2011 - 01:19 English
Poesia/Poetrix Orange Alert 0 2.000 05/16/2011 - 01:21 English
Poesia/Poetrix Poem #999 (for Doug) 0 1.595 05/16/2011 - 03:20 English
Poesia/Poetrix Sticks and Stones 0 1.485 05/16/2011 - 10:35 English
Poesia/Poetrix Waiting for My America 0 1.470 05/16/2011 - 10:41 English
Poesia/Poetrix Tapestry 0 1.706 05/16/2011 - 10:47 English
Poesia/Poetrix diamonds & religion 0 1.544 05/16/2011 - 10:51 English
Poesia/Poetrix Beatified 0 1.465 05/16/2011 - 12:48 English
Poesia/Poetrix For the Critic 0 1.397 05/16/2011 - 12:52 English
Poesia/Poetrix Ron Padgett lives! 0 1.607 05/16/2011 - 12:55 English
Poesia/Poetrix Threads of Remembrance 0 1.672 05/16/2011 - 13:02 English
Poesia/Poetrix On Hold 0 1.494 05/16/2011 - 13:04 English
Poesia/Poetrix ghosts & echoes 0 1.292 05/17/2011 - 01:19 English
Poesia/Poetrix Sudanese Dispatch 0 1.972 05/17/2011 - 01:24 English
Prosas/Ficção Cientifica Natural Selection 0 4.898 05/18/2011 - 10:49 English
Poesia/Poetrix Crossroads 0 1.063 05/19/2011 - 12:57 English
Poesia/Poetrix Almost Poetry (inspired by the first line of Marianne Moore's poem Poetry) 0 2.736 05/19/2011 - 13:03 English
Prosas/Others Dick and Jane 0 6.625 05/19/2011 - 13:09 English
Poesia/Poetrix A Vigil for Eden 0 1.917 05/19/2011 - 13:17 English
Poesia/Comedy Surreal killer 0 3.102 05/19/2011 - 13:21 English
Poesia/General Voter’s Blues 0 1.996 05/20/2011 - 19:00 English
Poesia/Poetrix An Artist’s Answer to the Absurdly Abstract 0 2.574 05/22/2011 - 20:54 English
Poesia/Poetrix Homeless Poets 0 1.123 05/22/2011 - 20:58 English