DPF / Mallarmé

For musicians in the visual arts play at inaudible decibels, from French Symbolist Poetry.

from Saint / by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by C. F. MacIntyre

touched by a harp shaped
by the Angel in evening flight
for the delicate finger-tip

that, without the old santal
or the old book, she balances
on the plumage instrumental,
musician of silence.

DPF / Picasso

For Seville and Córdova, from The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & other poems.

from Tauromachian Emblems / by Pablo Picasso, translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

Ibarra (Don Eduardo) Seville
blue turquoise and straw yellow emblems

DPF / Picasso

For whirlwinds and bonfires, from The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems, by Pablo Picasso.

from 5 July 1937 / by Pablo Picasso

livid festoon stars on the sleeve lilacs of her corsage homage of the almond green sigh of courage