mark young's Series Magritte

an on-going series of poems inspired by the great Belgian painter

Saturday, February 18, 2023

#504 La Belle Lurette

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The bilboquet is monocular, a cyclops in an uninhabited land- scape whose presence does not change the land around even if it does add som...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

#503 Jeunesse

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From Amazon in Belgium I can order this as a "Canvas Wall Art Print for Living Room Home Decor Ready to Hang (90 x 117 cm (31.5 x 4...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

#502 La Bonne Foi (2)

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For once the tie's knot fills the collar. The pipe, more merlot than the indian red of the tie, still manages — through the mediu...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

#501 Memory of a Journey

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Without the feather, the tower would fall down. Without the tower, the building blocks of the universe would have no- thing to hold them ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

#500 L'Ovation

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Begin with the bowler hat. It doesn't have the ebullience displayed by Astaire in his rendition of that Irving Berlin song but can ...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

#499 The Organs of the Night

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This time the jockey isn't lost, just perplexed to find a set of wellworn curtains standing upright on the sand. As is the horse, ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

#498 La Gâcheuse

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Strange to find such an image in a book on healing; but Magritte's purloining of the anatomical illustration lacks the layering...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

#497 Seasickness

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I am bemused that the 1950s saccharine pop song A White Sport Coat & A Pink Carnation that resides somewhere in that ‘songs you ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

#496 The Pilgrim

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Decide on what faces to take along. Set out on the road to Zion or Mecca or Ayodhya or Lumbini. Which one you choose will depend ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

#495 Melmoth

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I sold my soul for 150 extra years of life; but after filling much of that time with a variety of troubled wanderings, this is where I en...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

#494 Le Monde Familier

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Place the bell, le grelot , firmly on the ground. No need to anchor it — unlike the artist’s elsewhere use of it, this time it does no...
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