Brushstroke and buringouge, cups
                                                         huddled together, black and white,
Still life and landscape, perspective and architecture,
Giorgio Morandi stayed home
And kept his distance and measure. And kept his silence.
No word for anything but his work.

Example: yellow and tan,
                                          rectangle, circle, square.
Example: cylinder, black and brown,
Table-line like a horizon one might approach from.
Example: angle and plane,
Scratches like an abyss,
                                       a Mondrian-absence one might descend to.

Corners of buildings, bottles, hillsides, shade trees and fields,
Color and form, light and space,
                                                      the losses we get strange gain from.

(Charles Wright, from Chickamauga.)