Monday, December 15, 2014

What the Photographer Saw (1956)

Dawn Potter

Nijinksy in gauntlets, silhouetted
against a cancerous fog,

or Sandburg unchained. Flares,
prodded, leap up like angry dogs—

dance of the flaming coke
under a Van Gogh sky.

There’s an art to a man’s sweat.
I meant to ask his name.


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I haven't got permission to reprint the photograph that triggered this poem, but you can see it here.

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