Rohan Buettel: ‘Blue Poles’

Blue Poles
after the painting by Jackson Pollock

sideshow alley in the black undercoat of night
spinning on the Cha-Cha, heads flung, hurling orange skeins
strobic glimpses of grey, yellow, white, laughing clowns and manic faces
fireworks explode above, pouring incandescent drips
then the zipper ride thrusts up and over
the embroidered cage spinning, bodies thrown
by centrifugal forces unpredicted, uncontrolled
a web of kinetic accents engulfing all

“Drunks did it” the tabloids scream
a timber length dipped in blue slapped down
on this scene creating staggering verticals
the madness of fine tossed curls, the vitality
bursting forth would overrun this place but for eight poles
clamping the kaleidoscope to the canvas

Rohan Buettel