A Brush with Words: Study for Still life with Music Chair
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, ‘A Brush with Words’, here is ‘Study for Still life with Music Chair’ by Michael Sangster, which inspired the poem ‘Titleless’ by Charles Johnson.
Titleless (for Study for Still life with Music Chair)
This dish of water
shows the slant of the
chest of drawers it’s on
The tiltedness of our bedroom world
takes a dropped marble direct every time
to the window wall
I see and say water: wine
and water? Blood
and Water? Dirty water?
Water for tame bird
seeming lame bird facing the window
shadow held behind as if a broken wing
Bird that came
to watch us pack/unpack
these lyre-backed chairs full of eyes,
uncrease the curtains,
shake out daisies
Charles Johnson
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