This poem explores the different ways of seeing implicit to various forms of modernist (and 19th century) art. The many dimensions of love are also explored as a meditation on the liberation it sometimes brings.
Go to 'The First Hint of a Realist Sun' Format: JPEG. Copyright Ian Irvine, 2006, all rights reserved.
Note: this poem was recently published by the Australian literary journal Woorilla.
The photo above is of an ancient statute of 'Eros' ,Greek God of love/eroticism, exhibited at the Ashmoleum Museum Oxford. Photograph/copyright Ian Irvine, 2007, all rights reserved.
I met Jerome on a busy city street in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was forty-five years old. On that particular day, I was out and about, enjoying a much-needed day off from work.
I wanted to purchase a sukiyaki sub. I parked my car in an area of
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