Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 40

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TIM MCLAFFERTY

UNDERWATER VISION
pastel, Odilon Redon
He descends crosscurrents in starlight bent
and fractured by fluid surface geometry.
Along the seabed, a nacreous mussel-wraith
skims the aragonite in a cloud of iron,
gold and amaranthine. The living mind
swims in color and motion. This is to
say that I will not seek transcendence
in a void made real by rejection
of the senses. Morbid reality
demands a death for a life. In that moment
I will know, if I will ever know.

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