Primary Education
Through which desert of tortuous attempts
Was recovered a childhood of the war
Its unspectacular pieces yellow ochre and
Indian yellow not privy to other ways:
Look Mummy he said the artist the 4-year old
You can’t stop time a pause and can you?
Who’d left a picture in no way incomplete
The man the slant of the head the meaningful
Movement of the arm one morning shaving
Nothing from the truth in simple lines
La réalité contemplée en solitude n’est pas
Moins la réalité (of his father) dreaming
Through a wartime foxed one-shilling Pelican
On art its lime-drawings of primitives
And children ready to ignore the surfaces
Of things to let their rapid easy lines
Do all the work investigate and access
Anything whatever whether here or not
Improbable distances no less immediate
No special interest in the ‘colours’ to come
Just self-forgetting lines a dream that gets
Inside the text what is it I’m not this life
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