Touching Art Poem by Douglas Scotney

Apart from significance of cover,

Yves Klein's empty white gallery room
behind blue curtains covering the entrance,
put together with his large, shallow, floor-mounted rectangle
filled with white powder beneath and totally covered by
a thin layer of blue powder,

put in mind
the difference between
'beneath' and 'behind'.

Their juxtaposition
would not have put that in mind, however,
and I swear this is true,
had not a 'terrorist' bent over
the swimming-pool-like structure
and run a finger through the blue.