A couple weeks ago I submitted a poem to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Museum’s Power of the Poets contest. The idea was to write based on an artist’s work. I chose Black Cloud by Carlos Amorales and wrote from the duality of this view of his work and our current state of isolation.
Though not successful I was happy to throw my net for writing a bit wider.
black cloud, 2020
beauty
marked by distress
despondency
tinted by expectation
out there, life
former
altered, wounded, flaccid
in here, swarmed
obscurity
shadows, panic, death
stillness
streaked with approximations
expectation
shaded with suspicion
out there, anticipating
tomorrow
next week, month, year
in here, trembling
survival
dismay, agitation, loss
hush
mixed with intrigue
grief
mingled with reprieve
out, potential
in, subsistence
writing in the (mom)ent 