Timid Opacity
original poetryfeaturing the art of James McCarthy
I.
under icy shade
(ceiling forest,
day fragments melt
)
columns of bark
holding
up walls
from crumbling
[termitic fodder:
eating antsy
]
juniper sap
I coalesce
berryessence
suspension
II.
No one's request
I honor calmly
With a narrative
Of crawling
fragments.
They want a love story,
Refusing love's glorious arc
To bask in warvision,
Unable to perceive.
Since the world
revels in shallow darkness
I give them flaws so cravèd.
III.
an element,
—another.
their intersection,
their essential unity.
{centuries
of wandering,
planetary paving.
grand vomiting cities,
passages of stone & ink}
vapid religions,
spurious philosophies.
absurd tenets
held from a raveling rope
(piñata
from the cumulonimbus
palace
)
The world is
a bold transparency
forgotten
by mankind.
Poetry written
By 
7/1/18
.....
Oil paintings
By James McCarthy
.I: "The Old Ones"
II: "Stars and Snow"
III: "A Country House Garden"
