MADELINE TIGER
A selection:
AT THE CREATION
Rome, 1987
Even God
touching Adam into life
was letting him go
so far from the Father’s arm
the son
will never be held again, never
be touched, complete, as he was, if ever
he was, again
and strong as he is, lovely
as he is, the artist’s most beautiful
breath-taking, breath-given man,
he’s in danger
of falling away, that
grave and predictable
fall from the Face
if he doesn’t hold on
to the Earth, which is all