Self Portrait I: Point of View Shift: Considering Rothko

Self Portrait I: Point
of View Shift: Considering Rothko

for Dylan D.


Maybe today's the day to make something

of Rothko's blocks of falling or coming up
from the bottom swatches of colors maybe
that's what I need to decide when I stand or
sit or lay beside the broad wide blocks
and mull and study and weigh the race he had to have made with his rages and the shades
of his plagues and the great pace or gra-
dation or taking away spaces to make
an engagement of waves say a ravishing
layer and layer and layer and layer
of radiance break through but too if you
the you that wants to opens with him
the intimacy it takes the ecstasy it takes
to cut the tubes of paint into and away
from the palate and scalpel and slice
and divide and find behind the "White
Center" and  "The Untitled's" the long
possibles, of structure  of turpentine
of the nebulous edges that dampened
his morass by all means please
by all means