Sunday, February 07, 2010

Mondrian's Trees

In the immaculate white studio

Stands a vase

With a single artificial tulip,

Leaves painted white.

Silent in his laboratory smock,

The artist, pale and calm,

Peers through his glasses

At the latest experiment.

He loathes the colour green,

Cannot bear to look at trees.

Once he painted them,

Singular,isolated,

Architectural oddities.

Watchtowers.



Tree:

Shellburst

Of twisting torments

Surging outwards

In ecstasy.

Rapt.

Titanic evolution

In an instant.

Concentrated

Agonisingly,

Held together

Against all odds.

Lines of force:

Branches, twigs.

Ferocious tension

Of equations,

Pluses and minuses

Battling.



All objects are monstrous.

They hurt you

With separateness,

Doomed.

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