When Larking about
And playing the fool,
Please, do be careful –
Make it a rule.
For your misdemeanours,
However slight,
May become life changers –
Yes, they very well might.
You don’t want to be found
Playing the clown,
With your foot in your mouth,
Or caught with your pants down.
For just being sensible
Cannot hurt much;
You are not indispensable,
Keep a light touch.
Photo: WHB – 2019
An unknown nocturne plays
without provenance
Realised in a Narnian dream
to be read by hearsay
its undisclosed lineage
a mystery
White-garbed musician
guitar akimbo
Draped
casually at ease
on a cubist chair.
In melancholy mood
his arpeggioed chords
gently weeping
to me
the silent onlooker
the uninformed audience
for his deft and fretful
Brazilian saudade
Braque-ish cubes
predominate
Harlequin or Clown
checkered grand master
or imminent coulrophobia
And why white
Why the mask noir
the dense
Intense context
Where only silent space
listens
his rasguedo sonorous
in turn
soothing and somnolent
then
fraught with flamenco tension
or on fire with gypsy fervour
And the shadow figure
skulking
hurrying into the background
A sinister threat
escaping from
a mission accomplished
or fleeing
bearing yet more grief
to some renegade de-briefing
The message missed
Significance lost
Theories advanced
Debated
Discarded
The clues must be there
too dense to unravel
I need a history
I think too
I see hidden faces
The game players’ cabal
linked by name
or by my imagination
In my desire to crack the code
I stumble and abort my search
Defeated for now
But not for ever
I would be delighted if any viewer of the above picture could provide clues to the artist and or to his/her subject. I have had no direct access to the original painting (print?) but an intriguing story was woven around both the painting’s subject and its acquisition by the friend who allowed me to photograph the above which is merely a copy of the original.
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