The Bush

Soft other abreast gaiac omphalos

From and to which        to wish the swell

Eternal recurval return

            Beloved be love ed

Where from to which foamy

            or forest shore can we or you      or you or in you

Seek sweeter fruition                 

Hail or hoist cumuluscent curve

come, come

            which come here

In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘The Bush’ 1910-1911.

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.