I was handed a box
containing poems drafts
from 73 and 74
the word holds
connotations of bees
storing honey for harder days
days of wiser eyes
archive of forty years
recognising a voice
echoing still.
Old stories
Blocked up cellarways
memories stored
family homes destroyed
history forgotten.
I and Thou
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..”
Martin Buber, I and Thou
Alternating Currents
“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”
Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
International Dylan Thomas Day
Call out for genius to sort things!
the work of artists in these times
Tassajara cooking
So love this book from 1973!
Rip out your tongues
Rip out your tongues
When we were children
they told us
if we told lies
God would know
our tongues
had black lines
So before you die
Putin and Assad
will you rip out
your tongues?
So your God
won’t see
the blackness
of your tongues.
Putin you tell
your black tongued lies
and children die
rip out your tongues now
You think you deceive?
You think you can hide?
Idlib will not be forgotten.
@RAC
Voices on the Bridge – The flyer
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