Norma Cole
Contingent Tangent
The table was glass like the sea, things
Floated, shocked, frozen, little
Warships and such
An hour later his heart gave wayLita arrived early, shocked to see your
Talking a large view winter presentation of the
Body separated only by the land and
Desire, distance, wavelength, blood, rainTestimony, documentary, distinctiveness
Admitting of an uncertain and indeterminate
Something to think about something
Someone cooked up "Because the deepestRevolution is not social" [Will Alexander]
ESTAR for Hélio Oiticica
They wore strips of fire along their limbs for that death dance, fabric striped like roof
tiles, a cabin in Eden, small stars in the shape of proverbsChecks and balances her thoughts myself, organdy or tulle crumpled and bunched around
a rolled core of burlap upon a reflective cylindrical horizontal baseThe shorn wrapped woman opens the glass bólide. Rose pigment. Floral pattern on the
one hand, cape on the other. OverlayHe wanted to emphasize the other box too. In order to do this, he needed Milton. His
friend died in the seaHe needed to celebrate the bandit, Lycidas. The top of the box held between two hands,
diagonal slash a lighter gray across the lidThe open box above, small abstractions piled inside. Another lighter smaller object to the
right and on the following pageSpace relief underneath, the slanted opaque illusionary planes on metal stands. On glass.
Two round objects seen from the side, urn-like, from above, sphincter-like, pebbledAt least four kinds of cloth from white to dark, a striped one with a sheen to it. Held,
smiling above the gravel and the shadowed grass of Eden.