two poems

by GTimothy Gordon

What Kandinsky Said

When he splashed color

all over canvas in several arcs

and swirls, the chisel goading

a gaudy black border, up-

thrown into scalped relief,

taught to be green by the Geist

before being blue being blue

beingblue beingblue beingblue…

Klee to Kandinsky

The only thing real is the long, deep, inward gaze.

(Diary 20.06.1916)

The language of Blaue, Herr K.,

writes through me all night long

while slick ships prowl, quiet

and keeled and scrupulously

proud, and I cannot stop

waiting for morning to grant me

my great black flower!

*Originally published at The Argyle Literary Magazine

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BIO: Gordon holds degrees in Literature and Philosophy, Creative Writing, a doctorate in Comparative Languages  and Literatures, awarded NEA and NEH Fellowships for teaching and scholarship, artist residencies, poetry prizes, and presentations of critical and creative papers in juried journals and readings at global symposia. DREAM WIND was published 2020 (Spirit-of-the-Ram), GROUND OF THIS BLUE EARTH (Mellen), while EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received RiverStone Press Poetry Prize, NIGHT COMPANY nominated for NEA Western States’ Book Awards. Work appears in AGNI, American Literary R, Cincinnati R, Mississippi R, New York Q, RHINO, several nominated for Pushcarts and Best of the Net. EMPTY was published 2024, BLUE BUSINESS, his ninth book, forthcoming 2025 (Cyberwit Press). Recognized in Poets & Writers, Inc. (NY), Maine Society of Poets, Ohio Writers’ Directory, he divides lives among the borderland New Mexico/Texas Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.