This picture, taken at the Venice Biennalle several years ago, seems to sit well with, and even complement, a ‘recovered’ poem from an all-but-forgotten batch of rhymed verses, circa 2012.
I Am A Bird Now, is the title of the remarkable 2005 album by Antony and The Johnsons, the cover of which features an image of the iconic Candy Darling (see my post 30 April 2021).
TRUST
Light shines on the child at the edge:
balanced, poised, she is without fear.
She leaps into her father’s arms,
laughing, knowing she is held dear,
that Father’s love subdues all harms
and terrors: safe in the knowledge
that she enjoys the surety
his gentle, loving arms will wait
to break her fall. She has his word.
Her arms stretch out to imitate
spread wings, the action of a bird,
its flight, its feathered purity.
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