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| © Chuck Close, Self Portrait (detail of right eye), 2000 In Haiku Form with Sestina Formula Repetitions |
*i
A fold in his mind
where the brain hides lines; faces
retraced, drawn by marks
the work imagines.
As it becomes art itself,
the copying ends.
*ii
Where goals find their ends
in ardors learned by the mind,
eye detects itself
in seas of faces;
colors what he imagines
in shapes that he marks.
*iii
Repression leaves marks
expressed through whatever ends,
Aha! imagined.
Right back of his mind
where filmed masks become faces,
he shapes thought itself.
*iv
Work wrought, by itself,
unlike those others he marked;
read in their faces.
Beginnings to ends--
disconnected from his mind.
Now, they imagine.
*v
What's meant, imagine
how to arrive at itself?
Where's that in one's mind?
The point that he marks
where every achievement ends,
found in their faces!
*vi
In all of their faces,
what lights do they imagine,
when their viewing ends?
Surpassing itself,
moving past color and marks--
to shadows in mind.
*e
In ends and faces
Art's what the mind imagines--
Done, it marks itself.
© Gay Reiser Cannon * 2011* All Rights Reserved
where the brain hides lines; faces
retraced, drawn by marks
the work imagines.
As it becomes art itself,
the copying ends.
*ii
Where goals find their ends
in ardors learned by the mind,
eye detects itself
in seas of faces;
colors what he imagines
in shapes that he marks.
*iii
Repression leaves marks
expressed through whatever ends,
Aha! imagined.
Right back of his mind
where filmed masks become faces,
he shapes thought itself.
*iv
Work wrought, by itself,
unlike those others he marked;
read in their faces.
Beginnings to ends--
disconnected from his mind.
Now, they imagine.
*v
What's meant, imagine
how to arrive at itself?
Where's that in one's mind?
The point that he marks
where every achievement ends,
found in their faces!
*vi
In all of their faces,
what lights do they imagine,
when their viewing ends?
Surpassing itself,
moving past color and marks--
to shadows in mind.
*e
In ends and faces
Art's what the mind imagines--
Done, it marks itself.
© Gay Reiser Cannon * 2011* All Rights Reserved
© Gay Reiser Cannon * 2011* All Rights Reserved
Art in 575 by beachanny
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| Chuck Close in his studio with self portrait. |
