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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Untitled, 1954

by Paula Bohince •
March 2025, no. 473

After Mark Rothko

 

To land within a corona of jonquil, portal
to retrospect, with the immanence of insect. A thorax

hottens, sensational, in its own yellow canopy.
Being, flown via surprise winter (at rest, in instinct)

 


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