Rotorelief

my song spins, sings

the planets each their centre

rotate each relief

so desire

will deafen this trace

so trace will

deafen desire

relive in centre rotation

planetary singularity, each again and

singing and spinning your song

In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Rotorelief (Optical Disk)’ 1935.

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.