Urban Light, 2008 by Chris Burden
Robert Fernandezindeed
there is
a feeling
to the dawn-
ing of re-
demption
when we
realize we
have passed
the thres-
hold and
arrived at
something
new like
seeing
the impossible
become
a glimmer
of potential
become
the blaze
of the actual
and standing
in its light
and feeling
the heat
of the truth
that everything
has irreparably
changed
Lord, When I Feel like This It’s Like Running an Ink Brush Through Ash
Robert Fernandezafter all
I’m in my
copper
velvet
pants
out of
Goya’s
The Straw
Manikin
and my
cheeks
are rosy
and I am
smiling
and I
am pass-
ive and
accept-
ing and
I am pass
sieve
and ready
for what-
ever you’
ve got
ready for
whatever
you’ve got
Joyce
Robert FernandezI remember
I was
messing
around
on Zillow
and saw
one of your
paintings
on the wall
of a brownstone
near Washington
Square Park
and thought
fuck I have
not done
that yet
who did
that how
do I do
something
that looks
good on
the wall
of a brown-
stone?
which
sounds
shitty (ha
ha) but
really who
can account
for how
the seeds
of ambition
are planted?
anyway
I’d like
to think
it was a
combination
of your
living work
so fucking
cool and
just exactly
what it
is plus
the money
that made
me jealous
jealous
isn’t the word
itself a tiny
palace
of flames?