Friday, January 20, 2012

On Visiting the Rothko Chapel

When I went down on my knees

in the dark with you and stared

up at that canvas it wasn't long

before I saw His face

or one I imagined

could belong to someone like him.


His long features; lips pouted and

chin sloped emerged

from the black and purple

from the vast oil bruise in the way

people always told me he would come


perhaps in less literal darkness

perhaps when I could feel the weight

on my back from all that he wasn't


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