In The Hub of the Fiery Force by Harold Norse

Author:Harold Norse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

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the singing gallery

On a cracked wall in Italy 1 saw something the bomb passed by in a dark church aisle:

Piero della Francesca set his seal of light in colors that speak yet.

And Luca della Robbia made thick marble sing his joyous song of Renaissance boys.

They sing to me.

Now it’s rockets to the moon, we change sex like underwear, we believe in science.

All right, men must have myths.

I’ll take The Singing Gallery.

Florence, 1956

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the secret pornographic collection

In the National Museum of Naples on this hot afternoon lamps, braziers, jugs, caskets, kitchenware—ancient food from the buried city of Pompeii, fixed in cold lava, a world of naked pleasure: tripods holding basins or braziers —one mounted on marble, goat-legs forming three ithyphallic young Pans with tilted erections, raised hands while dark young men browse languidly and stroke themselves

joking, touching their past as they touch their sex in sensual recognition as if the church and two millennnia had never happened

Naples, 1958

La Raccolta Pornographica is the secret pornographic collection of the Museum, so-called because it houses the erotica of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, from which the bronze tripod was liberated, by Alexandre Dumas pere, I believe, who became curator under Garibaldi in 1860, and to whom we probably owe its open display in one of the galleries, although I cannot vouch for the accuracy of my scholarship since changes of moral climate have constantly affected this collection’s accessibility. During the Fascist era, for example, it was made off limits to the public.

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