Brian Louis Pearce

Storm on Primrose: For Francis Bacon

From The Proper Fuss. University of Salzburg, 1996.

On Primrose Hill, a stormy
light catches you, the last past
Master of broken marks; plast-
ers you against the downcast
black mass of ground and sky

scarcely lighter. The thin mast of post
put there by Brandt no
doubt, is even darker...

The poem was inspired by Bill Brandt's photograph of Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill.