Poem for Cimabue’s Madonna
Paris Louvre Painting 1280 Cimabue - Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels.
Streets and snow
White paint freshness
Ladders and the
angels
Going up and coming
down
Into a manhole in the
street
Telephone boxes and
demons
Circling the
ring-road
Boulders and centaurs
and flying angels
Billowing cloaks
alizarin and corn flower
Wings in hues of
cobalt and lapis
In tints of madder.
Layers and layers of
antiquity
Their green faces
peer from Cimabue’s plank
Gold deadly gleaming
Madonna
Secure in her
entourage of heavenly bodies.
“Angels. Up” she
cries
And at once the eight
wings of rainbow extend in an arc over her halo.
And she rises with
the colours
Prismatic in her
face, in her eyes
Permeating her body
in a
Heavenly cloud –
rising.
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