Dawn Davies: ..... you have to go away to come back

Saturday, July 17, 2010

..... you have to go away to come back

......It's not that I've been idling my time

....It's not that its not been on my mind ..........or ......that I haven't made stuff with Ambivalence in mind.........BUT it's neither been quite right nor good enough

SO I'm starting where I left off ..... with my taxidermied studies and I'm going to paint them big and we'll see where it leads............

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Rise ArtAugust 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM
The work looks outstanding!
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SO MANY DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF TIME by Brian Patten

How long does a man live after all?
A thousand days or only one?
One week or a few centuries?
How long does a man spend living or dying
and what do we mean when we say gone forever?

Adrift in such preoccupations, we seek clarification.
We can go to the philosophers
but they will weary of our questions.
We can go to the priests and rabbis
but they might be busy with administrations.

So, how long does a man live after all?
And how much does he live while he lives?
We fret and ask so many questions -
then when it comes to us
the answer is so simple after all.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
for as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams,
for as long as we ourselves live,
holding memories in common, a man lives.

His lover will carry his man's scent, his touch:
his children will carry the weight of his love.
One friend will carry his arguments,
another will hum his favourite tunes,
another will still share his terrors.

And the days will pass with baffled faces,
then the weeks, then the months,
then there will be a day when no question is asked,
and the knots of grief will loosen in the stomach
and the puffed faces will calm.
And on that day he will not have ceased
but will have ceased to be separated by death.
How long does a man live after all? A man lives so many different lengths of time.

for a dancer
Jackson Browne

Dawn Davies

Saturday, July 17, 2010

..... you have to go away to come back

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