“A Reaching Beyond”: Robert Lax Explains His Color Poems

(image from artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.com)
the red blue color
poems in colored
crayon

(do a lot of
things at
once)

they're poems
but look like
paintings

yet (being
neither poems
nor paintings)

are something
beyond both

---

and are meant to
be
(that) thing
beyond both
that includes
both

---

not a matter
of mélange
des genres

a reaching
beyond known
genres

for a new one

a direction of
the discovery
of new ones

(from thesis
antithesis
to synthesis)

a reaching beyond
what is
to what
(may become)

---

is there a sense
in which all that
may ever become

already is?

yes, is
in potentia

–pp. 350-351, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax