The Bride

Wanting in pieces

hanging fixed in stale time

Sky and dusked light from fragment

a structure clutters to a still point

a figure declines from a stair

I watch body

            in falter

Stutter this memory

in moving

air

In response to Marcel Duchamp's '‘Bride’ 1912.

See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.