Le bruit du crayon d’Ingres
sur un papier silence…
1
the noise of the pencil of Ingres
the noise of the c-lick Man Ray
le violon d’Ingres
the color pastis RICARD /
a studio
white smoke curl cigOISES le bruit
of the LEICA the camera Man Ray
2
the noise of the pencil of Ingres
of the picture being formed
of the LEICA
pastiche Ricard
of the camera
bare wood the walls floor o /
GAULOISES
& how she likes
being taken from behind
3
her back the inside smooth
an eggshell LEICA o /
explodes
4
f the pencil pro
file) the noise o /
he wears
white flannel pants
a pair
of english brogues) his shirt
the collar frayed the cuffs GAULOISES
rolled up a cigarette
his eye
the ground glass lens a LEICA o
click f her back f
5
le bruit du crayon le violon
& jazz age Paris my god
chairs tables crazy sidewalk shriek
RICARD
& dancing on the lids of taxis
(re. Bruccoli: Some Kind of Epic Grandeur )
R typewrOYAL
La Dome
of the pencil of Hemingway / 3
Stories she said three flights my god
the shutters open the cold pastis her clothes
she kisses her girlfriend’s breast
le bruit
of the camera the c-lick Man Ray
6
the noise of the crayon d’Ingres
of the LEICA the camera Man Ray
& in Paris the ’twenties a young man
with a perfectly o glass eye
/
Michael Paul Hogan is a journalist, poet, and literary essayist whose work has appeared extensively in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and China. His most recent collection, Chinese Bolero, a collaboration with the great contemporary painter Li Bin, was published in September 2015.