A reminder
Consider the Generosity of the One-Year-Old
who has no words to exchange with you yet
and instead offers up her favorite drooled-on blanket
her green rhinocerous as big as she is,
her cloth doll with the long blond pigtails,
her battered cardboard books, swung open on their soggy pages.
If you were outdoors she would hand you a dead beetle,
a fistful of grass, a pebble,
by way of introduction or just because.
And if, a moment later, she wanted it back,
it would be for the joy of the game
that makes of every simple object an offering:
This is me. Here is who I am.
In the same way, sun
drapes a buttered scarf across your face,
rose opens herself to your glance,
and rain shares its divine melancholy.
The whole world keeps whispering or shouting to you,
nibbling your ear like a neglected lover,
while you worry over matters of finance
of "relationship,"
important issues related to getting and spending,
having and hoarding,
though you were once that baby,
though you are still that world.
--Alison Luterman from The Sun, December 2002
I found this poem today on a Gallery's website. I needed it's words and comfort. A reminder for myself and all who will listen.
Harborsquaregallery.com check out Imero Gobbato, he is my favorite artist (and possibly one of my favorite human beings)
Me, discovering the piano
who has no words to exchange with you yet
and instead offers up her favorite drooled-on blanket
her green rhinocerous as big as she is,
her cloth doll with the long blond pigtails,
her battered cardboard books, swung open on their soggy pages.
If you were outdoors she would hand you a dead beetle,
a fistful of grass, a pebble,
by way of introduction or just because.
And if, a moment later, she wanted it back,
it would be for the joy of the game
that makes of every simple object an offering:
This is me. Here is who I am.
In the same way, sun
drapes a buttered scarf across your face,
rose opens herself to your glance,
and rain shares its divine melancholy.
The whole world keeps whispering or shouting to you,
nibbling your ear like a neglected lover,
while you worry over matters of finance
of "relationship,"
important issues related to getting and spending,
having and hoarding,
though you were once that baby,
though you are still that world.
--Alison Luterman from The Sun, December 2002
I found this poem today on a Gallery's website. I needed it's words and comfort. A reminder for myself and all who will listen.
Harborsquaregallery.com check out Imero Gobbato, he is my favorite artist (and possibly one of my favorite human beings)
Me, discovering the piano