#984 - in time where we are

 

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in time where we are

ekphrastic for Noella Mora Solvez’ installation Farming

at the Seinäjoki Taidehalli, September 22

 

 

we were all of them

and we still are

herded on and in

 

fish and four paws

bubbles blown

to dine to mate to part

 

that’s us!

 

green come to graze

a sea wrap bent right round

 

at the dead

what fun!

 

and once when worm

a roosting cooped

perch nervous

far from nature

 

eyes all everywhere

 

we slaves of the dance

the voice before

 

when I was a battery hen

                         to lay

when I was a cow and still am

 

in all the distance of it, speck

 

how can we

have been

everywhere ?

 

it’s only so long we do these things

 

ant as far

 

when we were the invisible air

who’d see us?

 

the voice before the words

or meaning

 

when I was stone

before that, star

 

it’s nothing done alone

 

we each are every one

still are

 

this is our only home