At the Tower of the King’s Body | Max Razdow

⇐ Drawings: Future Myths / Surface, 2011

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At the Tower of the King’s Body
25 5/8″ x 19″
Pen, ink, gesso on paper
2012
Private Collection, Milwaukee

Text:

We were
the small army
who found cause to want
to rest the tower
from the king’s body.
His million eyed stomach
was the entry
to his loaming sword.

I climbed a tree
and waited in the gleam
of the moon for
either a ladder
or the brays of my horde
to conquer him.

On my side
is the factory’s pire.

On my side
is the harp’s laughing chordes

tower speaking:
“My children,
you will never leave.”

hero speaking:
“My father,
we will take you back”