Guatam Verma
The End: A Triptych for Mark Rothko
no highway home no end in sight
no way out no turning back
black on gray gray in black
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weight, volume, density; texture, tonality; surface, depth, the
in-between
void, that is the opening
it’s the direction that’s the mystery (MR)
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unannounced
the end’s by arriving at it
this is the end: coming to see
Gautam Verma lives and works in Piacenza, Italy, where he has been the past few years since completing graduate work at the University of Denver. He has poems out or forthcoming from 26, Blaze Vox, Big Bridge, Word For/Word, Drunken Boat, Diagram and Moria among others and a trio of chapbooks – “Tombs” and “In Ladakh” from Shearsman and “Soundings” from Blaze Vox ebooks.