Kitasono Katue and the Colors of the World's Words

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KITASONO KATUE AND THE COLORS OF THE WORLD'S WORDS Translated by John Solt from SMOKE'S STRAIGHTLINE (Kemuri no chokusen), 1959 MONOTONOUS SPACE 1 white square within it white square within it black square within it black square within it yellow square within it yellow square within it white square within it white square 2 white within it white within it black within it black within it yellow within it yellow within it white within it white 3 blue triangular mustache 's glass white triangular horse 's parasol black triangular tobacco 's building yellow triangular star 's handkerchief 4 white square within it white square within it white square within it white square within it white square BLACK CHURCH a black ribbon inside a black cylinder is morning's prayer a white dot inside a blue square is noon's solitude a yellow book inside a white circle is night's food a black straightline for a green sound is shadow's time a fly for a purple eye is Judas's postcard white sand for a red glass was only itself WHITE GESTALT blue cylinder was black wind white triangle was purple rain yellow square was black loneliness curving red line was blue heaviness purple straightline was yellow time white square in white cube is Brunelski's star UNE AUTRE POÉME a black square is a black square a red cylinder is a red cylinder a blue triangle for a yellow triangle is a red triangle for a black triangle a white square is a white square a white square white yellow from BLUE, 1979 BLUE now inside passing autumn's blue wind just like a Giacometti blue bronze sculpture pulling solitude's gloom's straightline's long blue shade suffused with white and blue stripes ocean's blue, viewer's thin back also blue Other languages: Español Magyar Italiano Türkçe Français Deutsch Go to Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry