Night & Day

Chris Ofili, Annunciation, New Museum, Jan 2015

Your black eyes burn
me up to cinders, ashes,
screaming on the rock.

I want your hands:
my skin disintegrates,
ashen back to earth.

Chris Ofili, Nirvana, New Museum, Jan 2015

Your hand on my leg
burns through to bone taking with
it all my tears.

Day covers night
like a woman and her man; he
is taken away.

Your sand skin sees
my otherwise unknown: this
body, dawn broken.

Salamander mine,
Deep in this soil: also
Mine, also yours.

Chris Ofili, The New Museum, January 2015