Kit Kelen # 1323 - Ekphrastic for Michael Bell's 'The After Party'

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Michael Bell’s ‘The After Party’ 2019

ekphrastic

bottle over carrot down

black with the waves of somebody’s sea

thick cake smear – mock acrylic cream

and the flags

for backing up

for coming into land

butts, squeezed tube

matches dropped after use

with the Bell teeth

and the Bell eye smudge

cast in freckled pink

approximate of digit

I know that there are fish under this

smoke could be a ceiling

here’s frenzy of the work to be

the sea is higher than the sand

this is how things are going

the whole thing rocks as if afloat

resigned

aloof

attuned

and something not sure

to a fault

faithful

take these for the facts of a practice

a knife is well under

you might not see

the sawn down log made tackily

those red ears must have been boxed

it’s all still being worked on

walk away at the end of the day

won’t be finished here

the cup heaven so routinely pours

misses every time