Shades of the goose, the penguin? But that conduit
of snow-striped black, the lithe fluidity
on shore, are yours. Twin peaks, gothic against
humdrum waves, loom as feathers dry.
Body shapes – comic, ingenious or
statuesque – suggest an alphabet
of pictograms, odd pieces of furniture.
What would I need to lose, embrace, to be
so innocent of time; at rest in the fullness,
the adequacy, of what I know? A bevy
of swans and moorhens shares the river's nest.
A brilliant, rounded mind, the moon hones its truth.
Below the horizon, whales in convoy,
knowing what they know, are travelling north.
“Post-avant” poetry is widely considered to be an important branch of the post-modern tree. Yet, a distinction exists between post-avant & “po-mo” in other genres & art-forms. Po-mo visual art, as it exists in video work, installations, paintings & movies, often focuses on bold deconstructive analyses of specific people (sometimes the artist, him or herself; sometimes someone the artist knows, admires, or reviles). Tracy Emin's “Bed” installation, Warhol's portraits, Jeff Koons' mock-porn “Made in Heaven” series (which features Koons in various sexual positions with his porn-star wife “Cicciolina”) are all examples of this.
Bacchanalia by B. R. Dionysius
Australian Dream by Mohsen Soltany Zand
