Friday, July 25, 2025

Me and Rimbaud

Larry Wolf, Arthur and Larry and Larry and Arthur (2025)

Arthur and Larry and Larry and Arthur


Many
Generations apart
Continents apart
Connected

In his web
Paul
David
Patti

Gay Sunshine chapbook - A Lover’s Cock
Collected poems and poems and poems and letters
Imaginings of Java and Abyssinia
Fragments

David made a mask
From a photograph
Friends wore it
He photographed

The mask became a pin
Souvenir from an exhibition
Rebel artists brought into the canon
I wear it

Explaining, always explaining
A zine of explanation
Grit became polished
Raw edges still present

Almost twice Arthur’s age
Almost twice David’s age
Patti recites the poems
I look over my shoulder

At sixteen
Burst on the scene
At twenty one
A last poem

Yet
A century later
Here I am
His descendant

-- Larry Wolf, 28 July 2025

[Photo at The First Homosexuals exhibition. See also Two Bad Boy Artists and At 17 and 170.]

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