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“It’s harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Gacela of Unforseen Love
No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
Nobody knew that you tormented
a hummingbird of love between your teeth.
A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep
in the plaza with moon of your forehead,
while through four nights I embraced
your waist, enemy of the snow.
Between plaster and jasmins, your glance
was a pale branch of seeds.
I sought in my heart to give you
the ivory letters that say “siempre”,
“siempre”, “siempre” : garden of my agony,
your body elusive always,
that blood of your veins in my mouth,
your mouth already lightless for my death.
F.G.L.
Photo courtesy of Benno Friedman / Corbis Outline
The Radiant Child is a rare and beautiful glimpse into the life and art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD opens September 3, 2010, at Landmark Theatres in San Francisco. View trailer here.
Painter Leonor Fini at home in Paris with one of her 16 cats; photograph by Martine Franck
Christine Schiavo’s surrealist depictions of the back yard bear resemblance to the way our childhoods seem to manifest in our dreams – recollections under hypnotism on the couch of our analyst – the first glimpses of our deepest darkest unconscious psyche – perfect photographic fossils of long thought lost repressed memories. You can almost smell the watery grass, the millipedes, and the warm summer afternoon filled with the effluvia of barbecue and pop’s pipe smoke. You can view the series at Arthaus Gallery in San Francisco (www.arthaus-sf.com) or at www.chrisshiavo.com.
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