There’s no holly, but there is
the glass and granite towers
and the white stone lions
and the pale violet clouds. And
the great tree of balls in
Rockefeller Plaza is public.
Christmas is green and general
like all great works of the
imagination, swelling from minute
private sentiments in the desert,
a wreath around our intimacy
like children’s voices in a park.
For red there is our blood
which, like your smile, must be
protected from spilling into
generality by secret meanings,
the lipstick of life hidden
in a handbag against violations.
Christmas is the time of cold air
and loud parties and big expense,
but in our hearts flames flicker
answeringly, as on old-fashioned
trees. I would rather the house
burn down than our flames go out.
Isamu Noguchi’s ‘News’ at Rockefeller Center. Completed in 1940. Shows the different disciplines at the time involved with the news. Appropriate since this was adorning what was the Associated Press [AP] until AP bailed out in 2004. AP asked if they could take the stainless steel bas relief with them to their new digs & Rockefeller said, “Cool story, bro”. #ArtDeco #rockefellercenter #IsamuNoguchi . Photo taken a couple months ago when I was having a visit.
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