The monumental misremembering ...

I looked down from the pristine gallery -

There, far below in the Turbine Hall, was the fountain -

Sharks swam in its white basin -

The sable Venus -

The anguish of the ships -

The slave's head like a pearl in the opened shell -

It was as though I looked down upon all the cruel kingdoms of the world -

Fons Americanus -

The monumental misremembering -


Monday 7 October 2019

Tate Modern
London