Eratio


 

 

 

Two Poems

 

Mark Young

 

 

 

 

La place Louis-Armand

 

 

                       There is this glass

                               arcade that leads

                                      to the Gare du

                                      Lyon. Most of the

                                shops sell leather.

                             Two internet tele-

                        phones & an out-

                   door/indoor café

 

              punctuate the open

         space. Vietnamese

              youths play pachinko

                   on a Turing machine.

                         A dog barks. The train

                              is leaving Platform 7.

 

 

 

 

VIEW OF A SIMPLE VILLAGE CHURCH

     IN THE LOWER REACHES OF MESOPOTAMIA

 

 

This painting is of the transition from hologram to drone by a simple village church in the lower reaches of Mesopotamia. Although undated, the painting has been signed anonymous in purple in the bottom left corner. In 1935, anonymous — perhaps the same person, perhaps another — painted a similar transition, this time of a stolen Salvador Dali artwork morphing into a series of Mills & Boon romance novels. 

 

The oil in this painting has been sparsely applied, the considered strokes obvious against the sand-colored priming of the canvas. For the spire of the church, upward strokes of green have been used to insinuate the striving towards a supposed higher plane which, to reach, necessitates the transition to a drone-like state. There is a small dollop of white in the upper right corner. It is uncertain what anonymous meant by its positioning & presence. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Young’s most recent books are The Perfume of The Abyss from Moria Books, A Vicarious Life — the backing tracks from otata, taxonomic drift from Luna Bisonte Prods, Residual sonnets from Ma Press of Finland and The Comedians from Stale Objects de Press.  

 

 


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