A TRIBUTE TO IDA LUPINO CENTENNIAL

The Black and White Face

Held by a fascination,
I first looked when I was very young

a child, wanting to be held up

to see over the top

it was then that I saw a face with eyes

set in a solitary stare, alone

in a corner of an empty room

the eyes looked at me with a modern love

and from that moment

I learned that blue is a character

a fixed form on a spiral wheel

as it should be

part of daily reality , and caring not

who I was or where I came

but it mattered so little

the face of stark beauty, I loved

a face, not touched or held

but caressed with purest light , and wrapped

in darkest shadow, as it will always be

held by a fascination,

of what lives between the minutes

an intangible face, loved as only it can be

forever seen

in the camera eye view

with love and respect, for Ida Lupino 1918-2018

FIRST PUBLISHED BY VIA, 1992. @COPYRIGHT 1991 LOUIS ANTONELLI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.