Psalm of the Black Square (after Malevich)

by Adam Cornford

Black square central plaza of the capital of Night shadowed by street anti-lamps

Black square unfolding into a cube of silence that unfolds into Nothing’s tesseract

Black square door into maximum entropy where even the grains of light are frozen

Black square surrounded by black squares on all sides of Death’s unbounded chessboard

Black square Robert Fludd’s angel-mirror showing infinite dark in four directions

Black square vast macroscope slide a vertical slice through the hells of all religions

Black square moonless night-window Black square rejection of promised heaven

Black square quadrant in a map of colonial ignorance laid over prismatic poetries

Black square pirate flag where a snapdragon skull will flower laughing at nationality

Black square doubled becomes lenses for glasses that reveal only the Unseeable

Black square emblem of the dispossessed flapping above their captured arsenal

for John Yau