- Tess Galati
The Artist at Her Work
The Artist at Her Work
An iron chain fastened one end
to post
the other
to capuchin monkey
who
simulates her descendant
Gertrude Stein and acts
as though there is no use
for a center
who
becomes more
than laboratory subject
becomes more than
207 consecutive
problems with stick and banana
when
ignoring the stick
she makes a canvas of the
laboratory floor
and
hovers out geometric shapes
achieving
the effect of
roughly
Mondrian.
—Tess Galati
Previously published in the book, Holy Trinity: Maiden, Mother, Crone by Tess Galati.