In this blog we will share with you our vision of beauty, balance, harmony.

As Mark Leach writes in his book Raw Colour with Pastels: “Sound is all around us, and it is musicians who refine that sound into something of beauty. As a painter, I have always felt that my purpose is to craft colour in a similar way, to see through the confusion and seek harmony and beauty.”

And we add: Words, fragments of sentences, spoken noise is all around us, and Ken arranges words in such a way as to capture beauty in the accidental, the ambient soundtrack of life.

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Mildly Joyful Discontent


 
High Up 50 x 50 cm - acrylic on cotton rag paper c/o Karin Goeppert





MILDLY JOYFUL DISCONTENT
                                                             I do this I do that.
                                                                                   Frank O’ Hara
It’s almost day and I can
hear the fan whoosh by
and soon it’s five-thirty
the sky’s hesitant exhausted look
indicating more heat’s on the way.
Later on almost everyone’s outside  
wearing shorts which reminds me
of a poem by Les Murray
about the shorts-wearing season
in Brisbane so hot and wet there
people stick to each other by accident.
A few of us wonder how it might feel  
to be stuck on purpose to certain women walking by
(which is politically incorrect if hormonally inevitable),
a neither-here-nor-there proposition though
because so unlikely as to be nowhere.  
Karin is baking flat bread and
whipping up bowls of dip for a pot luck   
thing under the trees with a few neighbors
we hardly know and with whom we will talk
about this year’s heat wave, compare it to last year’s
the farmers needing subsidies yet again
and guess who’s going to pay for it all
climate no longer simmering but at full boil
ready to be served up by the Antichrist in D.C.
the spirit of our age riding into town on a golf cart
alcohol going down so fast that bitching and moaning
roll into one big beer belly of mildly joyful discontent
on this July afternoon in a backyard, Kreuzberg, Berlin.




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