Sunday, 23 August 2026

#2428 -- every birth is giving

 



2428

7.235

25.viii.26

every birth is giving

ekphrastic for Semiha Berksoy’s ‘Aria of All Colors’ Retrospective at Istanbul Modern

 

show claws or they won’t see you

 

it’s as with a flame too high

too bright to be seen

 

one must sing!

 

it’s how we make justice of hurt

 

and shall we say half the human race?

 

everyone has a voice to throw

we all lie down later

 

one body folds from another

body takes body in

 

that’s where the colour comes by brush

 

the possible is equal parts

what was not, what won’t, what cannot be

 

dress up to fall through this door

 

a winding cloth to sunbright

 

mother and so death

plaintive fragile

 

one must sing!

 

animal after all

quick getaway

 

self is what birth’s given

that’s just the tree gone up

 

with often a tinsel stage howl

 

how many eyes in a head?

 

they, too!

 

with tears

but fall from another place

 

to be alive is love

to be gone is just as good

 

the tune still on the lips

still meaning

 

one passes through this flimsy pall

into the light of day


 





































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