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The Joseph Cornell Exhibition: Smithsonian, December 29, 2006
For David Jauss
The irony is that since so much of Cornells work is held in private collections, I could buy you no postcard of collage or shadow box, his reclamations scavenged from flea markets and from the gutters of New York. I can offer you thisconsider the word blue in whatever shape, whatever shade of light it comes to you. The translation from word to image will cause your blue to fade, in the same way that a soap bubble, hardened to form the bell of an hour glass, fades from dream to solid in the warm twilight, as my sense of time slips away, in these unending museum galleries. |
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Helen W. Mallon received her MFA degree in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005 and is currently working on a novel. Her poetry chapbook, from Finishing Line Press, is titled Bone China.
Her poems, essays and fiction have appeared in many publications, including Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania from Penn State U. Press. Her story, Astral Projection is included in the Best of Philadelphia Stories Anthology 2007. |
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Date of Publication: 25 Feb 2008 |
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