The Futurist goes to Tate Modern, Anna Akhmatova at Koblenz & Lorine Niedecker at Lake Michigan
by Alistair Noon
[ poetry - december 11 ]
The Futurist goes to Tate Modern
This site-specific statement on violence,
aesthetics and modernity will see multiple squadrons
of B52s, Ilyushins and Long March cruise missiles
make Art a smouldering ruin.
Anna Akhmatova at Koblenz
Four days don’t seem like much
to write beside the Rhine.
Four days when we don’t touch?
Nothing some sweet white wine
won’t wash down the long river.
(But on its banks at dawn
I sit and slowly shiver
by hills the light has redrawn.)
Lorine Niedecker at Lake Michigan
The sky to the moon:
You’ve come too soon.
I've still got to see to my daughter.
The moon to the sky:
Just thought I’d swing by.
I’ll wait outside on the purple water.
