Farsi Poem from the West Wall of Widowsweave Exhibit

In this dark

I am thinking of a lightly lamb

to graze the grass of my loneliness.

 

In this dark

I see my arms beneath the original rain

that fell on the first prayers of men.

 

In this dark

I opened a door to the ancient lanes

To the golden image of mythical caves.

 

In this dark

I saw the roots.

 

And for the growing pot of death

I explained the fluid scent of water and earth.

 

By Sohrab Sepehri

Translation: Maryam Dilmaghani

 

The poem Az Sabz beh Sabz  was first published in the anthology Hajm-e Sabz (The Green Shape)  1967, Tehran.

Events this Friday and Saturday

Panel discussion today: Women Artists in Muslim Society

5:15-6:45

1104 S Wabash 2nd Floor

Tomorrow May 1st Performances:
3:30-5:00

Home Fires blog at New York Times

Todays NYTimes online has an article on an Iraqi Translator/Faulkner expert living on a temporary pass South of London, with a stipend that only feeds him, not his wife and four children.  It is part of a series entitled Home Fires:

HOME FIRES

Home Fires features the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the United States military. The project originated in 2007 with a series of personal accounts from five veterans of the Iraq war on their return to American life; the 2009 version includes dispatches from the forum's original contributors, and from new participants.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/home-fires/


Some of the discussion is reminiscent of the discussion with Jaber, Heidi and Chris last night at the coffee shop.  Only Jaber hasn't become disillusioned so much as disheartened I think.

Mental Explosion

I have so many Ideas and questions that it's great (except for the lost sleep) 
1. Do I want a fiscal sponsorship or not-for-profit?
2. Both? Is that legal?
3. In other words, how do I support my art and the charity?
4. How do I retain copyright of my art - or artistic control anyway? or do I? or should I?
5. If I sell something, am I the artist or the not-for-profit.
6. If I publish something, am I publishing it or is the not-for-profit?
7. In other words, if I start a not-for-profit, can I still make art? or is it all part of the NFP?


AND:
1. I can take my built Cabinets and put monitors in, then chalk the cabinet
2. Can't forget to interview Iraqis and Widows in particular.
3. How to light the granite slab - and should it be polished?
4. Make a documetary
5. Make an independent film

Etc...

Writing with T3

Sunday T3 met at Audrey's and for the first time I was able to make it, as did 18 other people! We talked logistics - what we wanted to do, how meetings usually go etc. Then we broke into three groups. Our group did three different writing exercises including Hemingway's 6 word novel.
(His: Baby shoes for sale, never worn)

I wrote three in five minutes:

Broken down
roadside dark
no gas
_____

conflicted longing
protected intimacy
night alone
_____

raspberry fingers
chocolate mint
welcoming eyes