Hidden

I propose

turning the key

useless to

conceal from you that

strange things

take place

it used to

ring of its

own accord

chair by

the window and the

door closed

saw the curtain

detach

falling

when I weary of

looking, something is

bound to appear

walking

backwards

she is frightened

by the sound but

cannot describe it

the face

vanishes, the

hands remain

white arms beneath

fearful drapery

looking out, over

the hill

I burn it, it

distills a dark mucus

curtain

wrenched away

a gossamer

veil, as it

seems

resembling, yet

most unlike her

armless

chair, handless

cup

sloping downwards to

the base of the hill

momentary

grasp around

her ankle

an old-fashioned

house

a narrow

lane on a

declivity

Keith Waldrop,  from The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2002)

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Katia Chausheva

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curtain

The Amalienburg Pavillion, Nymphenburg Palace Munich
Don Freeman

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the woman and the curtain

Georg Oddner, 1953

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Kiyoko and Curtain, Canada

Nathan Lerner
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still life -- the library

François Foisse, Still Life - The Library, c. 1741.
Oil on canvas. 24 1/4 x 30 3/8 in
from The Wadsworth Atheneum

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more blue :-)

Self-portrait with blue guitar, David Hockney

"Literature has been a mainspring of some of his most important and interesting pictures: in the 1960s he made a series of etchings inspired by Cavafy’s poems, and one of his most complex self-portraits, Self-Portrait with Blue Guitar (1977) came out of etchings he produced to illustrate Wallace Stevens’ poem ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’. This wonderfully self-referential portrait shows how many levels Hockney’s work can have: the Stevens poem itself was inspired by Picasso’s The Old Guitarist (1903), and the layers of inspiration are represented here by the realistic blue curtain which is pulled aside to reveal the artist, working at a table to produce a Picasso-esque outline of a blue guitar, while sitting on a cartoon-like outline of a chair, poised inside a child’s outline of a house, watched over by his own signature tulips and a bust of Dora Maar."

J. Flanders

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the blue curtain

Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630-1673)
Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635-1681)

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

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curves of incense

Threads of incense drift upwards
unending in my silent room—
a smoky portent, like cracks on a tortoise shell—
nine perfumed plumes twist.

An old mirror hides light with darkness—
embers flare within sullen ash.
The many folds of my silk curtain part—
what is most precious faces the wind.


Hyesim
tr. Ian Haight & T'ae-Yong Ho

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formalist curtain and window

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yellow curtain

Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 146 x 97 cm, 1915

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