Two Self Portraits
Nicholas O’Donnell
Spring 2022
Nicholas O’Donnell
Spring 2022
I
Vector fades to right
blue, brown eye
becoming dissipation
mind a center
then it begins
imagine wholeness
fractured in art
forget the idea
the body as an echo
reappears at center
burdened by the body
I think it and hate it
the want to be loved
but collapse a part
the dot black dot
consumes an axis
if this is it
we’ll die in forgiveness
II
Home blue home
approaches itself
the motherboard
the A frame
a sudden smudge negates the balance
look, look at these imminent daffodils
how yellow vectors
become a climate
[sound of breath]
A single guitar appears
as it nears completion
I am overwhelmed by sadness
this enlarges and supplants space
until mind fills the graph
with a heavy identity
an equivalence so perfect
it inevitably ruptures
Vector fades to right
blue, brown eye
becoming dissipation
mind a center
then it begins
imagine wholeness
fractured in art
forget the idea
the body as an echo
reappears at center
burdened by the body
I think it and hate it
the want to be loved
but collapse a part
the dot black dot
consumes an axis
if this is it
we’ll die in forgiveness
II
Home blue home
approaches itself
the motherboard
the A frame
a sudden smudge negates the balance
look, look at these imminent daffodils
how yellow vectors
become a climate
[sound of breath]
A single guitar appears
as it nears completion
I am overwhelmed by sadness
this enlarges and supplants space
until mind fills the graph
with a heavy identity
an equivalence so perfect
it inevitably ruptures