Joel Chace
Rooskiis

born within seven
years of one
another Nevelson
1899 in Kiev she
said "in the first
grade I already knew
the pattern of my life I
didn't know the
living of it but
I knew the line
from the first day in
school until the day
I graduated everyone
gave me one hundred
plus in art well
where do you
go in life you go
to the place where you got
one hundred plus" next
Rothko 1903 Dvinsk his
rectangles gentle-edged one
upon another their colors res-
onating softly res-
isting clarity moving into res-
emblance Shostakovich 1906
St. Petersburg subtitled his seventh
symphony "Leningrad" had it
spirited out of the
country on mi-
cro film
 

Previously published in Lynx: Poetry From Bath
Issue 11, May, 1999
Copyright © 2000 Joel Chace All Rights Reserved
 

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