ROBERT FERNANDEZ
ROBERT FERNANDEZ
Connects, Finds a Way
busts through
a wall
or kicks through
to a cavern
or falls through
a crack
into a cave
like Chauvet
where what is
wills you
to see
to bring
the beating
heart through
to drag
you through
the labyrinth
to it
to use
you like
an implement
a minecart
through
your mind
or mine
or soul
is what
art’s
supposed
to do
How Do You Know?
I know
because
I feel it
or see
it for
what it
is like
if it’s not
I know
there’s
no amount
of willing
that can
make it
what it
isn’t
and no
lie I can
tell to
conceal
the truth
and if it
is it is
despite
me or
with or
without
my sight
and there-
fore I can’t
do much
more for it
but leave it
or let it
be what
it is
busts through
a wall
or kicks through
to a cavern
or falls through
a crack
into a cave
like Chauvet
where what is
wills you
to see
to bring
the beating
heart through
to drag
you through
the labyrinth
to it
to use
you like
an implement
a minecart
through
your mind
or mine
or soul
is what
art’s
supposed
to do
How Do You Know?
I know
because
I feel it
or see
it for
what it
is like
if it’s not
I know
there’s
no amount
of willing
that can
make it
what it
isn’t
and no
lie I can
tell to
conceal
the truth
and if it
is it is
despite
me or
with or
without
my sight
and there-
fore I can’t
do much
more for it
but leave it
or let it
be what
it is