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Magritte Shaving
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René Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), 1952, oil on canvas. Image via SFMOMA
René Magritte was born on this day in 1898. Louis Simpson’s poem “Magritte Shaving” appeared in our twenty-fifth anniversary issue in Spring 1981.
The houses look at one another,
a language of windows.
The violin stands above the collar …
sleigh bells in a blue sky.How calm the torso of a woman
like a naked statue.
Reclining in an alcove
with curtains, the window gives
a view of earth … yellow fields.
She has a blue leg and a green arm,
red arm, and leg painted saffron.The orange sphere floating in space
in front of the blue canyon
has a face like a mask
with fixed brown eyes.
Directly underneath, on the parapet,
stands a shirt with a tie
in a dark, formal suit.He has left his shaving brush
on top of the cabinet with doors of glass
that is merging with a cloud.
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