This work is part of a 7½ piece exhibition called ‘ The Impossibility of Truth’ . I will be publishing updates here.
Acrylic on canvas.
150x150cm
Title: Futile Breath (Hofmeyr Skull)
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©2012 Pablo Saborío
This work is part of a 7½ piece exhibition called ‘ The Impossibility of Truth’ . I will be publishing updates here.
Acrylic on canvas.
150x150cm
Title: Futile Breath (Hofmeyr Skull)
©2012 Pablo Saborío
This work is part of a 7½ piece exhibition called ‘ The Impossibility of Truth’ .

Title: memento mori (remember you must die)
©2012 Pablo Saborío

I have a bubble
of music
swelling inside:
the silent walls,
the cold
structures of silence.
It is a tiny
flame of sound,
a flickering leap
upon the smooth
slabs of concrete.
I saw the snow
today fall
like an army of silent
white deaths.
And I wanted
to join its
fragile thaw.
I feel.
A minor chord
aches,
yes it resonates,
inside a minor heart.
I pressed down
decadently on
the piano keys.
The dark is draped with echo.

here is earth
all earth dreaming
this sliver of earth
this earth of maze
a rueful path on earth
all earth divine
hard as cock
as breasts voluptuous
this earth of sex
and dream and pain
here is earth
all earth excelling
in voice and void
this earth like
body drunk
with melody

yeah years teeth in sun
matter
piles up
dry
out there
waking
which is a breath
half air
half tear
obedient bodies die
these melodies
of tragedies
nothing more
than an idea of
awareness
this geology of memory
experience
breaks inevitable like waves
on far distant moon
unable to alter
the course
of inane atoms
the waves keep crashing
on the thinning stone
that life
half-asleep in chance.

The poet does not stand
atop of creation,
the world’s veins
drip their silent desire
over the poet’s thoughts.
The poet struggles,
upstream the imaginary,
irremediably crushed by emotion
that has the absurd behavior
of a happy ant.
The poet does not hold reality
but rehearses the repetition
of genesis and the dangerous
length of decay.
A recluse whose language
is tired of the simpler flowers.
The poet knows why
cannot be unearthed from his tongue.
Two or three words
have the function of
weightless evenings.
There is some truth
in the smells that drove
him to mindless ecstasy.
There must be falsehood
when he attempts to season
the Silence with adjectives.
The poet recalls
feelings as the leaves
of the tree of life.
The poet hums
on the road to another delusion;
and uncertain of the meaning
of anything, smiles at the stones
that he dreams under his feet.
Acrylic on canvas.
120x120cm
Name: The Scream
©2012 Pablo Saborío

Visualize
the first act
of violence
that gave meaning
to the word
‘violence’
the first dog
that symbolized the
genus of all dogs –
the moment
when abstract
was no longer
a word
but the whole history
of the world
Imagine
the timeless
before we gave
it a name
or happiness
before it
became a goal
or truth
when consciousness
was still ineffable
and nesting
Suppose
meaning
was the hardest
bone
and eternity
a living
cloud
Conceive
matter as the
drying spirit
or spirit
as the sleep
of atoms
Assume
if only once
that essence
is the entire
instant of life –
and death
is the entire
essence of poetry.

I have dreamt of
all the empty drying hairs
of the hanging towel
and then
sat by the gloom
resting on the every sip
of an infinite bubble of beer
whatever was foreign
came inside like pain
we then embraced
as wings made of feathers
the sun has sunk into structure
like an invisible tunnel
coiling around the sound
that a pair of lips dropped
and there is the mystery
of the tint at the edge of wide
nature softening like warm snow
at the shore of a blue eye
suddenly the windows
open like a mouth
and the smell of memory
leaves the room
like rustling from the hearth
there by the color
that was so wide as morning
an absurd hand fell
perturbing the surface
of black immensity
that earth consumes motion
adopted pale mirrors of battles
so it shines like a monument
of groans and poetry
a parcel of blood
has trembled
an ocean of thought
has become short as grass
somehow light
escaped as a carefree crystal
by evening a kiss
has woven a vowel of skin
there
the glaciers of feelings
have a glow and a vision
nearly as beautiful as a face
awake
by the rivers of factories
a century of quantity
because the comedy
transcends the dome
cities, reasons, gulfs
clusters sojourning
in the young greenery
of the storm
soon the saint
will hunt a harmony
the criminal
a wooden blue
I have a sin
a confession as hard as tooth
the shoulders carry
the burden of meaning
an immediate august tear
as calm as knowledge
sunburnt women
naked as cherry trees
somehow we sleep
the branches at an angle
mixing with the mute heroism
of a dancing future
all is ending
when all history is drifting
a virgin parabola
turns into gold
be what it is
the night of god
a tree of nothing
all imageless damage
heaven obscured the woman
that laughed in my hidden eternity
the drunken driftwood
has floated into seasons
when the wall is wet
and the sky feels like a bed
a nostril or a breast of love
our struggle ends in a shadow

My eternity
is the wall
holy plane of cement
there
a bird
stuck in solid whiteness
upon inspection
the rusty limb
of a nail
dawn is
but a hole
a minor cave
between two framed
photographs of the sky
of Arizona
a babel rising
against this vertical horizon
books and books
leaning against
my immobile infinity
a finger
combs the
miniscule craters
as if caressing
a tooth of God
my wall
neither
warm or cold
a monk’s sigh
converted to stone
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