to—or
a project for sea and soil, an exhibition curated by debbie hesse at the ely center for contemporary art.
may 5th - june 23rd, 2019
sidewalks are cracking
making place under standing trees
and footsteps are trickle-shedding trail skins
to exhume some cagey earth
and books talk
good talk about leaves breathing trees but
it’s a foot in the mouth or a boot
in the spine when the books unbound
from the knack of time by
a Future Library standing to show how
trees have breadth through
art and once
a life is art it can’t leave and
then the impossible is possible and
we’ll live by the unseen
and breathe through the under
standing for example
the future books that
because they have sleeves
will have wrists and they
will joint together by hands grown
because there was an end
and a need and the hands will grasp
for air by taking pages from
the hidden ribbed and rattling
cages the feet made seen and there
will be instructions Love
on how to hold your breath until
there is the space where sidewalks
won’t end and are always cracking by the lines of communication we must
be moving to
—or between
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