The Heft of Black, by Don Cellini

Sky Presence 1, by Louise Nevelson (USA, b. Russian Empire) 1961.

​The Heft of Black
                     "All (my) objects are retranslated." Louise Nevelson

Eyes grow
accustomed
 
to the dark
raven on ebony
 
coal landscape
onyx shadow.
 
Grid of shapes
porch lattice
 
spindle from a chair
handle from a shovel
 
small wooden crate
slat from a garden gate
 
a barrel head
a barrel stave
 
blessings within a box
each harmonious to the next.
 
Boxes of beautiful
blackness.

Don Cellini

Don Cellini is a teacher and translator, a poet and photographer, the first two by training, the second by good fortune.  His most recent work of poetry is Stone Poems from FootHills Publishing. ArtePoéico recently published his translation of Historia solar/Solar Hisory by Jair Cortés.  He believes that Words Transcend Walls.  More of his work can be seen at www.doncellini.com