Monday, October 19, 2009

Autumn Menagerie 15: Women Damned


Slight and weightless
as consumptive boys,
they glide like
pretty phantoms of
Rilke's ideal.
                            Radiance runs
                            off limbs figuring
                            a strange geometry
                            where bodies
                            lose curve
                            to line.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

isn't Rilke's ideal, androgeny.. isn't the interchanging of women with young boys something neither would admit, nor would their admirers.

Anonymous said...

how come this is numbered 15, and there is no 1? Is this menagerie open ended.. no beginning, therefore no end.

Anonymous said...

Emaciation, poverty, hunger, and genderless spirituality--all stamps of Rilke--I use Rilke here but do not blame him--it's a playful use...and does illustrate his fleshless work--but the point isn't Rilke, it's an aetheticism which preaches a christian like asceticism for "beauty"---Something Rilke admired in the Russian Monks--they had the "radiance" Rilke extolled--

Anonymous said...

#1 comes last.

Anonymous said...

A purging purgatory ...

Anonymous said...

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."

~ Antoine du Saint-Exupery

Beysshoes said...

There's alotalotalot to take away from your writes ... so plan on working for awhile. I hope you get my message David.

Anonymous said...

Sarai,


I didn't post the Saint-Exupery quote. Secondly, I think the person who quoted it was referring to the models---in a humorous vein.