Expressing the inexpressible
March 15, 1982
Ten longstemmed purple tulips in a clay jug, blackglazed with yellow spots just to copy just to trace an outline just to touch that matter just the curved stems just the petalled patterning just the spaces just the degree of tilting just the poised turning dance of these wild dervishes of these girls dancing to death of these gay martyrs not giddy and vain creation just mute humility the one impossible act just to copy precisely to make it once more what it is what it is no more with mute humility to discover its ontology and teleology the pre-flower pre-stem pre-petal the pre-word word that will once more unfold ten longstemmed purple tulips in a clay jug, blackglazed with yellow spots