My poem “the water under the bridge” is included in The Ekphrastic Review’s Victor Gontarov Challenge responses. Gontarov’s painting is entitled “Gogol’s Dream”, and many of the responses did refer to the writer and his work. I chose to focus on the dream.
Sometimes the formatting does not come through, and that was the case this time, so I’ve included the poem below with the correct line spacings.
this disordered arrangement
it cannot remain
as it is it is
always somewhere else
transparent shadow
what it was it was
a current of emotion
a glimpse of possibility
what could be could be
a conjuring that takes
and spends itself in fragments
what is not is not
no single body holds it
it cannot be arrayed
what it is it is
always disconnected
from story, form, the why
and what if what if
My thanks to editor Lorette C. Luzajic for once again featuring my work.
K. 
How cool is that? I really like your poem. It ebbs and laps at the shore of a surreal but lucid dream, tides conjured by your repetitions at each stanza end.
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Thanks D. Repetition seems appropriate for a dream state.
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Congratulations, Kerfe. Your poem does describe the dream/dream state.Disconnected but flowing together –I also really like your repetitions at the end of each stanza.
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Thanks Merril. The what if made me think of you.
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It’s nice to be thought of. Thank you. I used a different set from the Oracle today, and I still got “if” right away in the first try. I guess it’s meant to be. 🙂
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You go with the fantastical element, rather than the biographical which is rarely relevant in a ekphrastic poem, seems to me. The painting is a hotch-potch of unconnected dream elements, like your poem.
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My kind of painting…
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Congratulations, Kerfe. Your “what if” sums it, perfectly.
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Thanks Ken.
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congrats, cool
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Thanks!
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