Ern Malley: Six works

1

are these fields
or a flatbed art
hemmed by mountains

these scatterings a sky
or a world above this one

a golden sunrise
a kneeling figure

ravines and temples
in clouds or speckled paint

2

a monstrous bird
on its side, beak
parting the black
collapsed caryatid
oblivious passer-by

3

the side of a silo
overcome by vegetation

4

an eye
or moon
in blue night

5

snow-melt
in the pastel's
upper corner

6

oil scraped off a landscape
the hill that fell off a wall