Poem after Yves Tanguy’s Je Vous Attends, by David Capps

Je Vous Attends, by Yves Tanguy (France) 1934.

Poem after Yves Tanguy’s Je Vous Attends

Run along
from existing

to where the two ends
touch.

Ideas rise into air,
assume

nameless shape.

Like
hammered copper,

bodies still unselved, and
skewered

by their own spines,
form an architecture

above the ashy pit
to which all things are drawn.

From here, a vast procession
appears,

peripherylessly.

David Capps

David Capps received his PhD in philosophy from University of Connecticut and an MFA in poetry from Southern Connecticut State University. Recently his poems have been featured in Peacock Journal, Mantra Review, Cagibi, among others. He lives in New Haven, CT.