Six Men Of The Desert Poem by Denis Mair

(---for Abdelhaq Djellab's painting, now being shown at Alexandre Roubtzoff Gallery)
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From the desert of time they came, to arrive at teeming forms of knowledge....

textures splayed out like galaxies are inner vistas of their enclosing forms...

light that created living things projected their souls as shadows...

within them the earliest imaginings offered shoulders for abstractions to stand on...

when the tower of shoulders is rickety, we pine for a sturdy clavicle...

and relive our fascination for the most innocent figments...

we go halfway to greet those primal figures....

in hopes they will inspire flights of proto-abstraction.