I Want to Lay Down Inside an Agnes Martin Painting, by Thomas Mar Wee

I Want to Lay Down Inside an Agnes Martin Painting

(Quotations from John Cage’s “Lecture On Nothing” (1959)


"We   need  a  structure,             
 so     we    can    see 
We    are    nowhere"


Inside this fertile  blankness      [                    ] 
a plump being 
                      grows 

{the space inside  a wheel: 
                     how it turns }

on a clear day at the gallery
I gingerly dip
           a toe 
(In Milk River)
touching, briefly an eclipse 
of all thought 

Approach, 
if you look close enough 
you can almost hear it          hum.

Thomas Mar Wee

Thomas Mar Wee (they/them) is a writer, poet, and editor based in New York City. A recent graduate of Columbia University, they majored in Engish with a focus on electronic literature and generative poetics. Their short fiction was recently included in the anthology Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing. They are currently working on a short story collection and a novel.