Titian vs. Roadrunner: newyorker.com.
Titian vs. Roadrunner by Dan Chiasson
If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you
had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise all that fleeing is
going nowhere.
This bull, he’s got a bad intent, he wants
to hog the entire corner of the picture.
The girl is
looking tasty to the espying putti.
This small bird
crisscrossing my childhood
at enormous speed, outrunning
everything,
running out of road to run down, running
out
of canyon, running out of cartoon
runs out of the cartoon, never
to return.
That’s why this landscape looks forlorn.
The
world turned upside down and shaken
like a piggybank, the one
last coin
rattling around inside, just coughed it up.