Slough, by Thom Young

Black Sun, from Octavio Paz Suite, by Robert Motherwell (USA) 1988.

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Slough  

a leg
though he called it a sun
<<sol>>
as though printed Henry Miller
and bathed (see) by Huxley’s title
but the leg splashes
skin off within this
to say what of [flaying]
you can call it a death
or melancholia
             ‘how can it be that I abhor her yet am her,’
             Julia, and is that your shadow,
                         not skin,
                         and it is true, then make me wrong
so the interpretation is consolidated?
             and we disagree, so how to explain
             the shadow as I am shallow
             with depth of the enthusiast 
      <<something about clouds and hands>>
                          tell me of the seeming smear
                          do the dots ray instead of
                          disrupt this water which is
                          sky? and then the question 
                          can’t matter since this answer
                          is different even as extension or
                          circumvention
                                      different from
                                      your answer
                                 and I hardly spoke of the yellow

Thom Young

Thom Young is an artist based in Asheville and Boone, North Carolina. Their work has appeared in a few journals, while their first collection, Bespoke, is forthcoming from Saint Andrews University Press in the Fall of 2019.