Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Do it! Ekphrastic

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545936?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Blue&offset=20&rpp=20&pos=33

It's a small bowl, almost like a cup for pouring cream into coffee.  The color is somewhere between cerulean and teal.  Tiny black drawings and markings all around it.  Maybe a person a giraffe a lion and a turtle.  Maybe some smoke or wind above them blowing around.  Slight texture and ware on the piece, but still looks to be in good condition.  I would imagine it to feel like marble, heavy and smooth and comfortably cold.

Small and smooth and teal,
clean and crisp and curved.
Flowing and turning
giving and pouring.
A turtle leads the way
and a human in last place

Vast and round and cerulean,
worn and cold and crescent.
Drawing and marking
collapsing and relinquishing.
A sea underneath the heard
and and ocean within their whole.

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