Detail:

Making Butter

There's nothing like it -

turning and turning the golden whiteness

inside the darkness of the brain

listening to the wooings and

partings and weddings

of soluble tossed-about syllables

listening for the drops

of buttermilk tricking away from

the golden - yellow firmness of a poem

Translated from Scottish Gaelic by the author Aonghas MacNeacail

 Thoughts and images that come to mind;

• imagery of brain synapses/function, nerve pathways, churning of emotions and memories through the mind,
• the golden ratio in nature and art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
• Miro; such as 'la Sieste' etc.
• Work by Paul Klee
• Kandinsky, such as 'Sky blue' http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-kandinsky-mono-EN/ENS-kandinsky-monographie-EN.html
• 'Aleko and Zemphira by Moonlight' by Chagall http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=85002
• and of course imagery of making butter, memories of Scotland etc etc ...

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