Monday, May 1, 2023

i would be eight people and then the difficulties vanish


Progress. No aspirations to quit here but purposely disengaging the compulsive obligation to be here not by deliberately not being here but being here when I want to be. Spent the last week beating the fuck out of Arches cold-press watercolor paper, it remains undefeated. Cold-press > hot-press. The below is the flip-side of the one on the right above. Now I need work on disengaging the compulsive obligation to type here about painting, the first step to disengaging the compulsive obligation to posting the painting here





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YOUVE RUINED MY EVENING/YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE

Tom Raworth

i would be eight people and then the difficulties vanish
only as one i contain the complications
in a warm house roofed with the rib-cage of an elephant
i pass my grey mornings re-running the reels
and the images are the same but the emphasis shifts
the actors bow gently to me and i envy them
their repeated parts, their constant presence in that world

i would be eight people each inhabiting the others’ dreams
walking through corridors of glass framed pages
telling each other the final lines of letters
picking fruit in one dream and storing it in another
only as one i contain the complications
and the images are the same, their constant presence in that world
the actors bow gently to me and envy my grey mornings
 
i would be eight people with the rib-cage of an elephant
picking fruit in a warm house above actors bowing
re-running the reels of my presence in this world
the difficulties vanish and the images are the same
eight people, glass corridors, page lines repeated
inhabiting grey mornings roofed with my complications
only as one walking gently storing my dream

1 comment:


  1. one could look at

    https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/30/john-pilger-the-coming-war/

    the "coming war" is with china

    about pilger, our friends at wikipedia say

    John Richard Pilger (/ˈpɪldʒər/; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has mainly been based in Britain since 1962. Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda.

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