crossed out de kooning letter


... some kind of closet
and closed the door, you're inside
and I will not
let you come
out. I love and nobody knows you're here.

....

The Egyptians named the painter the maker
of outlines. Day after day

I have you in front of me. Even if
I closeted you
away I see your beautiful face. I see
you in all other
women. Your outlines
are in my heart. The more

I see beautiful women, other women
on television and advertisements,
I mean they are
just photographed then.
I see you in all of them.
And when one
of them is slow

motion swaying her dark
hair, in my heart I know it's you
and I see a big
green tree...