No. 12

TATE BRITAIN - The Weston Gallery 1950

No. 12

(1960)

Magda Cordell

Apparition

Emerging

Lucent and haloed

Buds erupting

weeping from a scaffold

Divine arrangement

Cruciform arms extending

framing, forming

separating, supporting

Swollen tears

droop in crimson -

gold - citrus...

Solar smears

stain AND sanctify

Foaming circulation

embalmed embryo

bleeds of life

Creation