Betonte Gewichte in Schwarz/Weiss (Stressed Weights in Black and White), by Wassily Kandinsky (1925: pen, brush, and India ink on paper.). One outlined triangle angles from the bottom left, tilts its tip to the upper right. Overlaid, at the triangle’s base is a tilted rectangle, angled the same as the triangle, with four striped lines inside growing thinner from the bottom to the top, evenly spaced. Above are two black crescent shapes, parallel, angled slightly down, from left to right. They have flat bases on the left and sharp tips hooking upward on the right. Along the right of the outlined triangle are three outlined triangles (from the bottom to the top sized by small, large, and medium) attached by their bases with tips pointing right. They rest between the four-striped rectangle’s top and the main triangle’s tip. There is an outlined circle in the upper left. Flanking its middle, two black triangles reach and cross over the main outlined triangle’s tip on the right. Their bases are cut at an angle, with the points near the circle. Behind the black triangles are three outlined triangles sized from left to right by large, medium, and small. Their tips face down and angle to the left. They rest closer to the main outlined triangle’s tip.
Paired with the artwork is Sheila E. Murphy's latest poem:
Crop Dusting
Universiocity out-laudanums
the swirl of dumbbells I alone can't lift
without sifting out the act of reprehending
when pretending won't do.
A kind of unkind epoxy gluts the room
where we are standing accidentally close
but not together I must declare in case
you are fond of inferring and do that now
retrospectively plus futuristically
as though you were Robert Theobold who lived
in Wickenburg when I was romping toward
my doctoral degree in a field then foreign to me.
It's about or not about being stuck I premise or
promise you. You perhaps wince at our proximity
unless I have you removed from this hypothetical
bounty of possible bliss or just a miss.
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