Jo Bertini
Devotional, 2024
oil on French polyester canvas
198 x 198 cm, 201 x 201 cm (framed)
$29,000
And the poem that exists will never equal the poem that does not exist. Trembling, it crosses the frontier at dawn from non-being to being carrying a small banner, bearing...
And the poem that exists
will never equal the poem that does not exist.
Trembling, it crosses the frontier at dawn
from non-being to being
carrying a small banner,
bearing a message,
bringing news of the poem that does not exist,
that pulses like a star, red and green, no-colour,
blazing white against whiteness.
Listen to the universe -
those are the possibilities of order
buzzing and humming.
The outline of non-existent
can be held by he inner eye,
always moving, it assumes the shape of stillness.
'Over the Frontier'- Rosemary Dobson
will never equal the poem that does not exist.
Trembling, it crosses the frontier at dawn
from non-being to being
carrying a small banner,
bearing a message,
bringing news of the poem that does not exist,
that pulses like a star, red and green, no-colour,
blazing white against whiteness.
Listen to the universe -
those are the possibilities of order
buzzing and humming.
The outline of non-existent
can be held by he inner eye,
always moving, it assumes the shape of stillness.
'Over the Frontier'- Rosemary Dobson
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