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| workshop of Tintoretto Young man in fur cloak 1558 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Judith and her Maidservant
For they walked for miles
For they walked for days
For they walked for months
For they walked for bloody ages in the wilderness
For they stumbled upon castles
For they stumbled upon larger jewelry
For they stumbled upon rubies
For they stumbled upon the largest rube of all
For they stumbled upon the excruciating rube of time
This was theirs for the asking tho they refused
For they stumbled upon folds of rhinoceri who knew no better than ants
For they stumbled upon bearded giants
For they stumbled upon bloodshot eyes
For they stumbled upon peoples who had lost their countenance
For they stumbled upon peoples who had lost their taste and savor
For they stumbled upon family aptitude for spiders an inch longer
For they stumbled upon children who were boys or girls or either
For they carried the gore's head a step farther at a time
For they were on their way past these heaps of humid affluence
Still they followed the thin trickle of a stream for some or a few violets
For they were on their way toward the civilized forests
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| Teodoro Viero after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Head of young man 1774 engraving British Museum |
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| Teodoro Viero after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Head of youth in fur-trimmed hat ca. 1770-80 engraving British Museum |
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| James Scouler Portrait miniature of David Garrick and his wife 1768 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| John Hayter Portrait of the artist Charles Eastlake 1814 drawing British Museum |
For All I Know
for all I know
someone else said that
"A black cricket
That stays at a black thicket
Is for later August"
for all I know
someone else said that
lake waters are thirstier
for some other kinds of August stars
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| Andrew Robertson Portrait miniature of Miss Burnaby-Green 1829 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| William Charles Ross Portrait miniature of Mrs Edwin Dalton 1826 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Frederick Cruikshank Portrait miniature of Miss Annie Larkin 1826 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in India Portrait miniature of Alfred Lowell Putnam ca. 1860 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
Walkative, Talkative
When those are the walkative stars
That talked to the immediate prisoners themselves
When those are the talkative stars
That walked along the narrow sedge pathways
Yet those are lines to another star
That were to have been led for changelings
Around a dark dreambox of another kind
That houses our more talkative stars
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| Anonymous artist working in England Posthumous portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671) ca. 1800-1825 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Anonymous printmaker after Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of the Baillie family before 1850 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| William Essex Portrait miniature of Empress Eugénie 1857 enamel on copper Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| August Sander Aviator 1920 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Errol Sawyer Untitled 1997 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
– poems are from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (Brooklyn : The Song Cave, 2013)