At Holmesburg
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At Holmesburg Susannah Nevison All I saw before me were acres of skin. It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time. DR. ALBERT KLIGMAN If one takes the bird's eye view, it's easy to see how a field becomes a fine-tuned system designed to give us exactly what we want: row after row of finely turned earth, pliant beneath specific tools, which we sharpen in dark houses after a long winter's sleep, which we drag across the earth until it yields a pattern we can work with, a matrix we bless with growth, control for weeds, eradicate what shouldn't take. What we want is to push the boundaries without giving way to disarray. To see what might survive these methods is what we want, to raze what fails us. Summon rain. Under ideal conditions, it's anybody's game. |
