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reverse of volume - onishi yasuaki

butterflies, rafael aroujo

Rockefeller Center NYC - Mina Hu

reverse of volume - onishi yasuaki

mina vesper gokal

NicktoLee/Banksy

NicktoLee/Banksy

5/10/14

History


The pale crescent shadow inside the dark iris 
of the gorilla behind bars
 - what let's me know that he is real -
isn't something I'd trade easily
for that bright sky honesty I can't forget 
shining like a rowboat wading in the sunlight
of your ocean blue eyes.

I built a tiny sand castle inside your left tear duct,
and a little girl with her red plastic bucket
crafts her dreams next to the the shoreline 
so safe inside of there.

While the quiet one with too much to say
sits and waits the time to pass;
Life flickering before him holograph
like memories on super-8 projector screen,
the story of the youth he never had.

A trajectory of iridescent arrows marks a circular path
of breadcrumbs from the zookeeper.
Eleven dusty pigeons rise beyond the surface
like incense smoke and flying ashes,
yet his chain of rusty keys can never be set free.
Convinced he has reenacted the great and mighty jungle
all for me,
these fake plastic trees,
the dirty glass of severed self-awareness,
the smudge of fingerprints 
which keeps him clearly from remembering
the wilderness where we belong.

Wildflower coconuts constructed just prettily enough
to distract the conscience of the ones who won't care for

instinct
and the reason
why gorillas don't speak.























Song

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