The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for May 2001


The Tate Modern

the suspended piano
by turbine hall
repeating Rebecca’s
antics
         amid the
craned necks

and smiles

while below
Ferdinand’s
Ballet Mechanique
loops and winks
and pouts
with
pointed lips

and up
on the other
end the image
of Marcel’s
Great Glass
stands
unmoving on the
floor en
guard


as the bachelors
dance
and the bride’s
heart
lies bare

    [the sheets
    flutter
    in the silence]

the glass
as settled
and as infinite

as the dust

March 2001

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