Babel

In all the words only had a language

Peter Bruegel the Elder, he painted

Babel,

just built between the words and men

of armed arms

The confusion, that

Bruegel did not see

in its piramide unfinished

with a cloud blow

What it brought the water

to the eyes of the men?

Now the whole world had one language.

Thomas-John Parr

MoMA

As Picasso did it, the eyes
bigger than the head, it extends
for the spectator
the primitive bodies
Les Demoiselles,
I saw it with my wife
in the summer of 1991,
New York in suspension
below of the heat’s humidity,
lively and intact in a recurring wave
of air, the soul
establishes itself
in the girls of the Calle d'Avignon.

Thomas-John Parr