Rita Ackermann

Fire by Days I, 2011, courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York / Photo Jessica Eckert

vacancy in glass

poem by ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE

 

To a place
Of wind

To a place whose towers
Are pillars of fire by day

To an opal palace
In the sky’s zenith heart

The bird of pale air
Flies

In a swift white line
On black space

A brushstroke
Signifying absence.