i await you

surreal poem in response to surrealist painting. • museum of fragments • 2025

i await you
(after yves tanguy's i await you / je vous attends)

"Meticulously painted,
the fantastical forms scattered throughout the eerie landscape recall"—
choked gasp in sleep. veiled bodies, warm in sterility. bones,
          deformed, molded, rounded into stalagmites
          sprouting from endless liminality.

recall—
stifled circulation. scratches into concrete wall, against greying skin.
          muted colors. silenced, hand over mouth, wristbone against cheek,
          pushpressing into flat. blurred.

recall—
familiar shadow. musicbox dance. outreached fingertips to touch, to
          touch, and tangent. unexpected collision, grasp, tightly against chest,
          neverletgo intention.

recall—
fading horizon. don't let go! don't let go! don't let go!

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thoughts coming tomorrow!

i await you (je vous attends), a painting by yves tanguy in 1934.
view the painting on the LACMA website by clicking on the image above.

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