Saturday, July 2, 2011

utterly charming

Joseph Cornell's 1957 "For Sale":



"Sequestered bower – numerous compartments, look-outs, guest rooms, cozy nooks (feather-lined), pine-scented lounge, ivy-covered observatory for early dawn views and romantic sunsets, cheese cellar, moss-lined alcoves with dripping water and large variety of snails, cool storage, chalet-view of valley, bird’s eye view of old chateau inhabited by storks, aquarium in base of trunk with rare deep forest specimens, salamanders' crannies, violet-banked approaches, musical waterfalls, natural mineral specimens, and easy walking distance to enchanted lake."

I love "violet-banked approaches" and especially the blithe final assertion. And of course the current inhabitant's leery, world-weary expression (rendered so by the text and context, I know) makes the whole thing.

I liked this a whole lot too, its warm succulent hues thrumming and fluctuating like its obvious Rothko antecedents, and unabashedly emotional:  Richard Mayhew's "Rhapsody":

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