Poetic Journal Year 166 B.E.

166.27 Muse on the pop art of Sister Corita

Muse on the pop art of Sister Corita

Sainted the signs
that signal our distress,
our sins, dear Sister.
Stigmata of release:
white on blues.

Knight-gold on blue,
a signature of times that rush
that do not stop for us
then fade into their glorified pasts. This

Palm of the present:
burden of our culture
or a dash of hope we can somehow
divine our future.

Vibrations flash:
Blue/white
blue/gold
white/blue
white/red
blue/white
red/white
gold/red
like cars in a train,

A then, is for Astrology,
its white star-gems blue backed,
below: do they see us roaring
past-past-past,
hear cold clacks of rails in rain.

Heart of our beating, white now red
that signal the source of our sins, dear Sister,
our hope and redemption,

O My God, our pain.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.27] 2009-04-10

Note: based on 7 pieces (S,K,P,V,A,H,O) hung in the MAM, Missoula, MT.