The inspiration for this painting came from the second stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem F867 about falling apart. The two-stanza poem begins with the line I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -
Here's the second verse:
The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before - But Sequence ravelled out of Sound - Like Balls - opon a Floor -
The inspiration for this painting came from the second stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem F867 about falling apart. The two-stanza poem begins with the line I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -
Here's the second verse:
The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before -
But Sequence ravelled out of Sound -
Like Balls - opon a Floor -