Kandinsky: Composition 8, 1923<\/p>\n
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An explosion in Stravinsky\u2019s robot workshop:
\nnow poor Igor will never complete
\nhis troupe of clockwork dancers, which,
\njudging from this jagged blast
\nof armatures, sprockets, escapements and flanges,
\nwould have looked less like metal humans
\nthan graceful assemblies of drafting supplies:
\njet\u00e9 of dividers, pas de bourr\u00e9e
\nof mechanical pencils and pantographs.
\nThis watchmaker\u2019s orgasm, this architectural plan
\nfor the Church of Dissonant Space Flight,
\nthese mad extrusions and stampings and lathe-spun
\nlenses perform the airborne metal music
\nof migrating mathematics, honking along the flyways
\nof a just-manufactured heaven, a heaven
\nwhere twentieth-century robots can dance,
\ncan fly, can worship
\nthe innards that make them tick.<\/p>\n
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Dennis Caswell lives outside Woodinville, Washington and works as a software engineer in the aviation industry. Before that, he designed and programmed computer games and educational software. His work has appeared in Floating Bridge Review,<\/a> Crab Creek Review,<\/a> Burnside Review, Vain,<\/a> and assorted other journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kandinsky: Composition 8, 1923 An explosion in Stravinsky\u2019s robot workshop: now poor Igor will never complete his troupe of clockwork dancers, which, judging from this jagged blast of armatures, sprockets, escapements and flanges, would have looked less like metal … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/samlow.com\/images\/KandinskyComposition8Gugenheim.jpg\")
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