Reuben Gelley Newman

Half

         Jasper Johns, Handprint, 1964


Half your hand is blue.
Half is red. Half is yellow.
Half is green & half is you.
Half is me & half is cello.

Half is fuck & half is pain.
Half is sight; half sound.
Half night; half day. Half rain
Half pleasure. Spin me round


On our unknowable circumference.
Radius me. Break me in half.
I don’t care what I turn out to be.
Paint me: make me different.
Make me cry & make me laugh.
I don’t care what we turn out to be.

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