[New-Poetry] Poetic Justice

[robert e. watling jr.]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:24:11 -0800, Judy Prince  
<jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Me trying to beat back awe and envy for your experiences, Robert!   
> Please [don't ask me how] tell me what it was like to be standing there  
> looking at the Real Thing.
>
> Judy


Thanks Judy for the kind response to my first post to this list. The Kline  
kind of leered at me from the end of the gallery. I couldn't avoid it, not  
that I tried but was looking at each thing as I came to it and there it  
hung at the end of the room. I'd turn a corner looking at different  
things, moving in to look at brush strokes and details and moving back to  
get the whole and kept seeing this big black thing in the corner of my eye  
until I just had to stop and absorb it. I'm not an artist or educated much  
in art. Some things just get into my head, like Monet's Water Lilies, the  
version in the Cleveland Museum of Art as opposed to the one in Portland  
that doesn't touch me at all. The Kline just did it for me and I can still  
see it in feel it in my mind. Then to turn around and see the Lebovitz  
photo, I just burst out laughing. And with all these words I still haven't  
really said what happened to me that day. But I will say that in a day  
that for me was not inspiring, the juxtoposition of those two works was  
brilliant. Now I can't remember either without thinking of the other.  
Thanks again...rob.
-- 
"Cogito ergo...how does that go again?"...rewjr.