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| Cleaning the Oven |
| 作者Author / Gary Gildner |
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Cleaning The Oven
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Louise
Nevelson (American, 1990-1988)
Black
Chord 7, 1965
wood
and paint
17
3/4 x 30 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches
Purchased
with funds from the Coffin Fines Arts Trust,
Nathan
Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1968.8 |
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Cleaning
out cow and chicken -
cleaning
out all those long days
of low
views, chewing grass, hauling
feathers
around, ticks, the same logical
shadows, an
expression of small
birds
hopping in dung, among twigs
and
serious, forthright lice, busy
as widows
fixed to their knitting,
free to go
anywhere, the Silo, the bank
in town,
the bank by the river,
flinging up
on the intimate wind
bits of
cheerful song, Who goes there?
And
answering, I do! I do! On knees
attending
to splash and drip and sweet-
smelling
ooze, dark territories
from which
the leaders have fled
plump as
parrots, their ribbons,
their talk,
their fabulous waltz
boiled down
hard to a scorch, a mistake,
a thick
crusty embrace that comes off
in black
chips, greasy coin. But
who are
you? You? Gathering in rags
cheese and
honey, tiny nuggets
or rice,
messages from the surprise
party
offering warm hands at the door,
someone
just passing by, just dropping
in for a
minute, veiled, whispering, a kiss
surfacing,
a blush that he and she
walked and
waited for years to discover,
Yes, you,
scraping off one, and one more,
and yet
another burnt word, shoulders
back, back
bent, eyes brimming
with
happiness, fear, strangers,
old friends
reaching out, trembling
under the
speckled starlight to say,
Come
in. Come out. Don't worry.
And
call. Call when you are ready.
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The
poem is from A Poetry Anthology by
Robert Careeley. ( Edited by Robert Creeley. Edmunsson Art
Foundation,1992)
All
Rights Reseved. Used with permission by Edmundson Art Foudation, 2002
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