Oh God, Sarah, we're on different sides of the fence. I love Rothko's work - those massive blocks of color - but you picked the two Rothko paintings that I don't like, and are totally different than most of his work. Here's my Rothko poem (fittingly, the last one in my most recent book) and a Rothko I would have picked to go with it.
Rothko
black black black black black black
in tones of black and black on black
the canvases are tagged
abstract
expressionist on every plaque
although the artist will attack
abstract and shun the word the lack
of it will not distract the claque
in black black black black black
brown brown brown brown brown
a message floats above the ground
serene reflective, and profound
a man who wound his own life down
red red red red red red red red
dead dead dead dead dead dead
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