OPTIONAL POETRY

We all gathered around the prints: Somewhere in the Vollard suite a girl leads a minotaur through the night after a maze of loops and airy ateliers the effect is stark– the stars are gouged out the faces lit by some internal source. It notes he is blind. The aquatint is Rembrant-black the curator said, an opaque way to state more than, I think– a night that dark is felt, not seen.