by Francis ScudellariDownward ascent
Holes
Fill up
Imagined
Landscapes, once-buried
Memories snatched from safe-kept dust,
Spotty dreams interrupted, portraitless frames, no-place held
Voids
Earthly
Wounds, vacuumed
Space outward ceded,
Loose-dirt lipped hollows, bed-barren,
New life supplanted, uprooted to/o empty gardens
8 comments:
Dear my!
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e amori trapassati
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Franscud,
You are an impressive artist, an extrovert and a cerebral introvert in a simultaneous equation. I see the coiled work. You make all who view your art & read your poetry think in an internal wonderment. That intertwining makes this poem quite tantric.
Thank you, your friendship has made me realize even more that I tend to think as I speak, unlike yourself who is far more likely to think before you speak.
Vaya con Dios, mi amigo.
Ciao Hanna,
The drawing put me more in mind of an intestine, but there's also the figurative shape of a head hidden within it. A meditation on being an nothingness :).
Thanks Ralph,
I appreciate the compliments very much. I think our friendship offers good balance, as I probably think too much and could use some more extroversion in my interactions.
I just read the intro to the Miriam Greenspan interview you gave me, and it's a striking coincidence (serendipity?) to read it after having worked on this poem.
Very cool. Naturally you already know my response to the coincidence thang!!
Miriam Greenspan believes that in America's emotion-phobic culture, people have been taught that grief, fear, and despair (a.k.a. depression) are bad, pathological, and dark emotions that must be shunned, stifled, or controlled. But she believes that instead of being an obstacle to a rich and rewarding life, they can be seedbeds for gratitude, faith, and joy when nourished properly.
I just thought that it was a different way to look at a sometimes over-burdening problem.
I definitely like her take on it ... and I hope that will come through in Part 3 :).
I have understood, si,
in the life there is to ruminate more on negative things than in those positive.
Therefore You work contain a sift...
A sift, yes! And a shift, as you'll see in the third part.
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