Are you living in the past
Because ‘Great Art’ insists you must
In order to make art?
Then does the immediate world
Disappoint as not enough?
It is too omnipresent for so many
And the Method School essentially
Dictates that you re-cycle pleasure-pain
(Re-cycled air in buildings leads to malaise)
I take my Vespa for a spin to Spagna
Its many mirrors mainly are for show –
My past is present risk-assessment now
‘I’ also am a vehicle from the past
Through this means I maintain
Nostalgia for the future –
When all who emulate the Great Creator
Beckoned at the end of time
Into timeless paradise…
Are invited to install their works of art
To animate them with a breath of life – but find
An origami bluebird fails to fly
Our literature is so much origami
Composed within Snow Country
From the valley to the peak
All we see are fragments of the whole
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Bernard Saint
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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