In shadowtime I see the frailty and the persistence.
Dejà vu.
Dejà vu.
Not because anything comes back, but because a tree collapses like a bee,
collapses like a house.
A whole economy,
like the blue robes of a Flemish virgin.
Swoon.
Seeing is recognising that which we have seen before.
I name things twice; little pig, little pig.
The first is just to call something into being, the second one, to anchor it to time and space.
Shadowtime shadowtime.
I have been dead for so many years, I forgot my name.
As I type, a bird flies into my window pane with the force of things that want to live.
Little pig, little pig, let me come in.