Giacometti
Called his women
‘spaghetti’
The reason for the
Spindle stalk legs
And ears of corn bodies
Of his women
Was the stripping away
The cutting down
Of everything
Right
Down
To
Its
Core.
I could see his
Mother saying
‘if you keep
Carving away
At everything
Soon there will
Be nothing left’
To have nothing
Is to be weightless
Free
Of everything.
Stripping, molding
Whittling and hacking
at the universe
till it is reduced to
an intelligible size.
That is why
The best sculptures
You will never
Ever
See.
