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[[note]] Copy rest fo Ruth Bowman, Feb '78 [[\note]]

[[note]] Gorky [[\note]]

June 26, 1942

ARSHILE GORKY - GARDEN IN SOCHI 

I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water. I like Uccello Brunewald Ingres the drawings and sketches for paintings of Seurat and that man Pablo Picasso.

I measure all things by weight. 

I love my Mougouch. What about Papa Cezanne.

I hate things that are not like me and all the things I haven't got are god to me. 

Permit me- 

I like the wheat fields the plough the apricots the shape of apricots those flirts of the sun. And bread above all.

My liver is sick with the purple.

About 194 feet away from our house on the road to the spring my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired from giving fruit. There was a ground constantly in shade where grew incalculable amounts of wild carrots and porcupines had made their nests. There was a blue rock half buried in the black earth with a few patches of moss placed here and there like fallen clouds. But from where came all the shadows in constant battle like the lances of Paolo Uccello's painting? This garden was identified as the Garden of Wish Fulfillment and often I had seen my mother and other village women opening their bosoms and taking their soft and dependable breasts in their hands to rub them on the rock. Above all this stood an enormous tree all bleached under the sun the rain the cold and deprived of leaves. This was the