"When dawn spreads its paintbrush on the plain, spilling purple... ," Sons of the Pioneers theme for TV show "Wagon Train." Dawn on the mythic Santa Fe Trail, New Mexico, looking toward Raton from Cimarron. -- Clarkphoto. A curmudgeon artist's musings melding metaphors and journalism, for readers in more than 150 countries.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Black Dog

 
The Black Dog--watercolor
8 x 12 140# Kilimanjaro paper
 
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. 
A penny for the Old Guy
                   
                I
            
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
... .

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
... .
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
 
T.S. Eliot 




































Labels:
,
,


















1 comment:








  1. @okieprofFebruary 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM
    P.S.  This painting just "is," as with poetry, I think.

    It means what it means, though the trivial questions of who was Mr. Kurtz (hint, from my favorite story), and what was The Black Dog (hint: Sir Winston Churchill would know).
    ReplyDelete















Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.















        

      









Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)