Across Amsterdam

out of a poem by Duncan McGibbon



[ Across Amsterdam]



out of a poem by Duncan McGibbon
  "One cannot deny the naturalistic and capricious nature of the oblique"
                                                 Piet Mondrian ('Home-Street-City', 1926)




                      
                     [auld lang syneside]
                                        
                                 In float
                                     blot
                    ribboned wrapped edge
                                     lies
                          Rembrandt grave

                                                         [weigh]
                                                                   
                                                         The pierced death barge
                                                         while Sephardim claim

                                [station]

                         The masked photo
                           angered Vondel
                         forced pawn dupe

                                                          [Y?]

                                                           The eighteenth
                                                           ballasted town

                                                           hate here
                                                           floated
                                                           
                                                           Berenice

                                  [jewry]

                                A pealing
                                  they do
                     her night light mind

                                                            [mark-up]

                                                            In appelflaffen certainty
                                                            another women's simple space

                                                            heretics

                                   [guide]

                        The masked average
                          serious commedia
                            from ourselves
                                    guards

                                                            [calvary]

                                                             We carry looking
                                                             let Heer in
                                                             absolutes, Substances
                                                             king

                                  [bye bye]

                                 to-day the
                              showed silent
                                  so joyful
       
                                     Freeze

                     composition landscapes

— Elizabeth James, out of a poem by Duncan McGibbon