For the New Year, 1981, 2024
Denise Levertov,1923-1997, American born Britain.
published in Making Peace, anti-war poems. New Directions Publishing, 2006
Detail of Ice Drawing, 2012, installation consisting of video (color, silent, projected through structure) and structure with metal armature and hanging crystals.
Joan Jonas, American born 1936. Loaned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to MOMA, NY in 2018
I have a small grain of hope—
one small crystal that gleams
clear colors out of transparency.
as above
I need more.
I break off a fragment
to send you.
as above
Please take
this grain of a grain of hope
so that mine won’t shrink.
as above
Please share your fragment
so that yours will grow.
The Path through the Irises, 1914-1917, oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The artist cultivated more than forty varieties of irises at his estate in Giverney.
Only so, by division,
will hope increase,
as above
like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower
as above
unless you distribute
as above
the clustered roots, unlikely source—
as above
clumsy and earth-covered—
as above
of grace.
as above
Perfect message at the forking years’ path Trodden by any- and everyone of us!
Thanks due to you for a yearfull of living accents, soulmade, regularly, undefeated!
What a lovely message, Ioana!
Let us hope for a year of in which there is more work for peace in the world; and for us, creativity and patience, and pleasure.
The images you shared are fabulous, as always
Happy 2024, dear Sarah🙏💖
Thank you, Luisa. In hope for all of us!
🙏✨🙏
Bonne et heureuse année Sarah.
Je partagerai mon fragment de cristal autant que je pourrai.
Et a toi, Louis! Merci.