not care for the Marin watercolors
but just as we were leaving someone
came in the door and the draft
blew a photograph off the
table on the floor and I picked it
up. It was a photograph of a painting
representing a sun back of a
skyscraper and I asked where
the painting was and the next
thing I knew we were looking
ath the most miraculous
paintings ever painted by an
American not even Bellows
excepted – these paintings
by Georgie O’Keefe an Irish woman
from Texas – comparatively unknown
but Christ what paintings
passionately chaste with cool
explosions into things cool
and white an almost hospital
white and there were great
vagina flowers color of
orchids and young roses
flowers young and strong
and magnificently physical
and rich in color and
as simple as silence The
body flower unfolding in
the soul A great painter
singular as opposed to plural