Malak Mattar, Untitled (detail), 2024, charcoal on paper
You Can See How the Waves
roll in and out but the shore
unchanged. Or how a seed
while the root thrusts down.
and water below. Argue
instability, how grains of sand
into new maps. Or how
to death while roots crack
you imagine the heart
in the harsh knowing all you
The sun sets. If you think
Consider center and radius,
You choose the weight of stone
be a feather. In the end none
remember the way of the sea.
To surge is to recede is to surge is to recede.
Published:
| Online 2005

Michael Milligan
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