"White Center" (1950) Mark Rothko
I wish I had a photo of plums to put here, but I don’t. I do, though, have an image I love, of one of Rothko’s paintings. I can’t put into words why this poem and these paintings affect me the way they do. Maybe that’s why I love them so.
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
William Carlos Williams, 1934
dreaming of sleep 
This is a very plum-like Rothko : ) I love his art, and feel sad to think that he is gone. I have had the pleasure of seeing some of his works in person, and marveled at their power on a very very big wall. Thanks for the lovely poem and pic Jane. Here is my favorite haiku, back at you…
ants on a log
floating downstream
still singing
Chris
Thanks for that. I do like a good haiku.
this is cool. lol
I like it
Why, thanks!
I’ve never seen this Rothko – I really like it, thank you for sharing! Have you seen Charles Demuth’s painting “The Figure 5 in Gold”? It’s an “homage” to William Carlos Williams. I always like WCW’s poem about the red wheelbarrow.
I’d never seen the painting, or the poem (until just a moment ago 🙂
I love the red wheelbarrow poem, too.
Oh Asia! WCW is my absolute favorite! Here is an excerpt from one that I love.
“…There is no power
so great as love
which is the sea,
which is the garden-
as enduring
as the verses
of that blind old man
destined
to live forever.
Few men believe that
nor in the games of children.
They believe rather
in the bomb
and shall die by the bomb….”
William Carlos Williams
from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Beautiful!