Goya’s firing squad Bosch’s hell
Munch’s cry Géricault’s raft
A horse screams beneath the impotent light bulb
Salome kisses the dead lips of Jokanaan
Oedipus rakes the brooch over his eyes

The face of a dapper man is obscured by an apple
Two bourgeois lunch with a nude woman
A patriarch dies of a toothache
The bride is stripped bare by her bachelors
Ballantine ale gleams in bronze beside the toothy toothbrush

The nightingale sings of summer
A child one of seven plays about a grave
Hail daughter of Elysium
Brightening glance and body swayed to music
The radiant stars will shine upon us in all their scintillating beauty