Ekphrastic Poem

Beyond My Imagination

Oh art,

How you never fail to impress

With the way you stretch

My imagination

To its limits.

A chair is a chair is a table

A tomato is a tomato is an onion

And a bent up washing machine is a bent up washing machine is a …

What?

Oh Chamberlain,

How you challenge my imagination

My creativity

My world views

To make the same connection

as this washing machine does

with itself

and you do

of it

How you bend and twist my mind

To be the shape you want

To a shape you can finally call,

art.

John Chamberlain
Coconino
1969
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