We Did It

Acrylic on 24"x36" canvas

Shitty camera phone picture

there are two poems in the background. The first, being "we did it" by Yehuda Amichai, and then into the second (I forget the title) by Paul Eluard

We did it in front of the mirror
And in the light, we did it in darkness
In water, and in the high grass

We did it in honour of man
And in honour of beast and in honour of God
But they didnt want to know about us
Theyd already seen our sort

We did it with imagination and colours
With confusion of reddish hair and brown
And with difficult gladdening
Exercises, we did it.

Like wheels and holy creatures
And with chariot-feats of prophets
We did it six wings
And six legs

But the heavens

Were hard above us
Like the earth of the summer beneath



and

Lover, secretly behind your smile
The words of love nakedly
Discover your breast and your neck
And your hips and your eyelids
Discover every caress
So that the kisses in your eyes
Reveal entire the whole of you