Descending

Item is a poster poem created by Bridget Riley (poster) and Edward Lucie-Smith (poem). The poster has a large geometric design with the poem Descending, which reads "Going down. How the voice ; Stepwise descends. Who cries ; There, behind the curtain ; And says those muffled words- ; Untelligible ; Secrets being told? ; You would like to know them ; But if you heard clearly, ; Would you not invoke the ; Black descent of silence?".