Sunday, March 16, 2014

Baucis and Philomen

it is 41 days without you
I made a painting of this moment
when you pleaded with life to take us together
or you first
two trees
one earth
triangular reach
white separation

"One problem is insoluble. One day the blow will fall and separate us. No friendly god
will turn us into a tree to shade the farm.
...I lack the means of imagining the moment of separation. As I am neither able nor willing to imagine another life, some kind of life beyond the frontier, the perspective is appalling. That nobody will have not even have a memory of an affinity."

Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern