Michael Edwards

RACHEL

 

 

RACHEL

 

With preference for the monolith

her work sits proud

beyond the element of form

beyond the canvas edge.

 

So private and so palpable

the space beneath her chair

and yet a single idea cast

beside the wharf

her House of 1983

existing now as memory.

 

A library etched in absent books

the Holocaust In bunker form

that haunts and contrasts with

the cabin in its restful cast

observing empty space.

 

The weightless luminosity

encapsulated high above

the nothingness of empty form

solidified within the square

above all human presence

 

She peeled the light

she cast the dark

her work adjudged

both best and worst.