The Blue

perspective creates illusion, another dimension
beginning of modern age, modern love, the blue

In the 40’s, Picasso was at the end of painting,
at the end of two dimensional representations
the photograph allowed increase in detail, increase
in contradictions that heralded the blue

the pictorial--the contradiction in motion--
living opposites under the same roof,
in the same bad bed built by Muses
or some other fringe group
living with a diminished thing
the distinctions between love and blue

a tableaux that exists for us to avoid looking
mirrors and scapegoats
not only a transgression, a fascination
with transgression

the enormity of the sadness
kept at bay, nibbling at its edges
taking small drafts of poison
to build tolerance

transformed things in an image
transformed people in a marriage
people in a marriage transformed into things
the play is between two registers,
language of mirrors that sounds blue