Lite ljus brinner och jag känner mig helt lugn. Jag tror jag behöver det efter alla långa kvällar med mina skisser. Jag kommer att visa upp några här snart.
På mina ljusstakar från IKEA valde jag att skriva en dikt av Patti Smith, som är helt underbar, både henne och dikten alltså.
SLEEP OF THE DODO
The dodo sleeping, dreaming of himself,
lost in his daily doings. His wife mounted
in a menagerie of mogul extremes.
His children born and slain for sport,
with nary a nod save the wind,
echoing an old dance tune.
Funny squawks: coracoo, coracoo
swept by mist into the grotto,
the sugar plantation. Funny beaks
bobbing the swamp´s dreaming pond.
Comic bodies washed up on craggy
shore. Funny bones, then no more.
The sun hung, bled into the clouds.
God´s bloodshot eyes, such a sad suprise.
The dodo awoke, and seeing them,
slowly closed his own again.
Out of this world, into the indistinct
memory of a line that had forgotten itself.
-Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence
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