Poppies, 1890s, detail, watercolour, ink and graphite on paper.
Hilma af Klint, 1862-1942, Swedish. On display at the Guggenheim, NY in 2018/2019.
She left an extraordinary record of her spiritual pilgrimage in works of abstract expressionism avant l’heure, held together, not to be commercialized; and only in recent years on display.
The Red Poppy
Louise Glück , American born 1943, Nobel Laureate, Literature, 2020
From The Wild Iris, 1992.
These poppies are growing in a little community park in South Philadelphia
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me.
I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart?
Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again?
Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do.
I speak
because I am shattered.
All of your images are gorgeous!!!!
Thank you, Luisa. But believe me, the magic is in the clever little digital cameras which react to colour and light!
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