Close Reading Of White

(From looking at Rauschenbergs White at Kettles Yard, 26 January 2006)

imperfections
hillocks of paint
shadow-cast
canvatic cross-weave
textures
white strips smooth thick
layer
ridges
plateaux
waves
smooth
noise
signal
optical imperfections
float down
sphere shapes white, white
mottled grid like skin
bones pile on bones, crunchy
shifted foreground yellow hues
and grey
beyond (the) pale
mist stare
ships shape
         dissolve
all the way to 11           
         4'33"
a baby cries
         ...bury me in a pine forest
I pay my car-tax
        England retreats from Empire
a pebble falls to a gutter
        an unfashionable arm of a little known Spiral galaxy