Two Poems
Mark Young
La place Louis-Armand
There is this glass
arcade that leads
to the Gare du
Lyon. Most of the
shops sell leather.
Two internet tele-
phones & an out-
door/indoor café
punctuate the open
space. Vietnamese
youths play pachinko
on a Turing machine.
A dog barks. The train
is leaving Platform
7.
VIEW OF A SIMPLE VILLAGE CHURCH
IN THE LOWER REACHES OF MESOPOTAMIA
This painting is of the transition from hologram to drone by a simple village church in the lower reaches of Mesopotamia. Although undated, the painting has been signed anonymous in purple in the bottom left corner. In 1935, anonymous — perhaps the same person, perhaps another — painted a similar transition, this time of a stolen Salvador Dali artwork morphing into a series of Mills & Boon romance novels.
The oil in this painting has been sparsely applied, the considered strokes obvious against the sand-colored priming of the canvas. For the spire of the church, upward strokes of green have been used to insinuate the striving towards a supposed higher plane which, to reach, necessitates the transition to a drone-like state. There is a small dollop of white in the upper right corner. It is uncertain what anonymous meant by its positioning & presence.
Mark Young’s most recent books are The Perfume of The Abyss from Moria Books, A Vicarious Life — the backing tracks from otata, taxonomic drift from Luna Bisonte Prods, Residual sonnets from Ma Press of Finland and The Comedians from Stale Objects de Press.
