Poems
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Fountain
By Evelyn AraluenExcellent I through utility
behold the humble fixtures
The water egoism – activity working
no other utility but the plumber -
This is a Real Poem
By David StavangerWhat’s the difference between a chocolate grinder and a poem?
The title of the poem cannot compete with cocoa.
Nor the mundane truth of the grinder. White chocolate
is the worst case of plagiarism in the last 100 years. -
whispers & kicks
By David StavangerThere's nothing quite like that fresh, clean feeling
right after a shave. But all can be ruined once you notice
clumps of sink left in dark hair. I trained as a librarian.
This is a clear transgression of boundaries. Now I’m in -
The Chess Game
By David StavangerMy son and I play chess
every morning during his custody visits.
We’re willing to sacrifice our queens, putting
them aside for the duration of the exchange. -
Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette
By Evelyn AraluenDrain the bottle to drink her scent
named in a play of florals
Where different bodies dance in distance
in rose glass haze -
‘Double-Exposure of Duchamp Smoking a Cigar’, 1968
By Brian Fuata
In response to John D. Schiff's 'Double-Exposure of Duchamp Smoking a Cigar’ portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1968. -
‘Untitled (Left Arm)’, 1959
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Untitled (Left Arm)’ 1959.
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From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a valise)
By Alex GallagherHow one compacts and compartments
a living body of work, beaten and breathing
two lives half lived sitting neatly in a briefcase
wrapped up in leather, untethered by its brevity -
Marcel Duchamp at the age of 85
By David AstleMD at LXXXV:
shadow-cratered, and crated:
the grand MOMA moon,
who created, and catered, -
L’Opposition et les Cases Conjugées sont Réconciliées
By Evelyn AraluenI say I won’t go
and you say you won’t choose
We make games of blocking and correspondence
but cannot sustain the play -
'Le Surréalisme, même, no. 1’, 1956
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Le Surréalisme, même, no. 1’,1956.
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.
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First papers of surrealism
By Alex GallagherCraters dug coarse into unblemished skin
like sun spots convulsing along the surface
new holes erupt with violence and spew forth
I touch the ground and sink deeply into the fissures -
Sink Stopper
By Evelyn AraluenTo stop: tinker, replace
Drain and fill
Pop the stopper
From the stove -
what was what before anything was anything
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Eliot Elisofon's 'Duchamp Talking to People in Gallery about "Why Not Sneeze Rrose Sélavy" at "Three Brothers" Exhibition, Houston' 1957.
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at t… -
The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The green box)
By David AstleNine men in a pane
of their own,
Abstracted, distracted,
foiled at her throne. -
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel
By Alex GallagherLuminous skeletal
transfer your transparence
Won’t you rip open that ribcage and show -
Stair/Case
By David StavangerTo cast myself on a wall
I literally had to stop time
let the staircase ascend my body
like a dream I had where I forgot -
Interior, Arensbergs’ Apartment, New York
By Alex GallagherThe body edges against its tensions
each motion captured disrupting the rhythms
as ambiguous sinew stretches out and over
in that frenetic gesture of human autonomy -
Rotorelief
By Evelyn Araluenmy song spins, sings
the planets each their centre
rotate each relief
so desire -
Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters
By Alex GallagherA sororal split cut up and remixed
like a mirror askew down the middle and strewn
across canvas face in red and grey
we ricochet carelessly into each other