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Aubade with starlings and what serenely distains to destroy us
Aubade with starlings and what serenely distains to destroy us
CreatorHenning, Sarah
TitleAubade with starlings and what serenely distains to destroy us
LCSH SubjectArtistic collaboration
Work Type (AAT)poetry
ContributorsZebhi, Behesteh
Relation-Is Part OfI wish it could have an "Endpoint"; http://dlsd.sdln.net/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/exhibitions&CISOPTR=124&REC=1
Full text"In love's service only the wounded soldiers can serve" Thomton Wilder In your mouth I find the story of my body you'll trade for a psalm to grow in the snow, psalm you'll feed to starlings as though they're caddis flies, lacewings, each illicit seed of white sandalwood that won't grow supple and unruly in their guts, so I make you enter me while I'm bleeding, because I'm calyx too, iron slick chrysanthemum blossom, and afterward, we won't talk about your ex-wife's miscarriage, I won't ask how her pain was silky, stark sugar, blackberry penetrating the mattress, how she buried the memory like a nest of frozen starlings, so they might bloom dusk-stained, terracotta, so they might rise, stout and fledgling, back into the mouth of winter. You won't tell me that in order to save her you left her, shame's cloying fortress is what shuts a body down. Which is more brutal, how our bodies begin and end with equal intensity, burst apiary, deluge of bramble, or how to avoid drowning in our own honey, we learn to let go? When you turn away from me too it's a kind of singing, a psalm protruding, it's a bird eating bees right off the ground.
Date Original2013-01-24
Height11
Width8 1/2
Measuring Unitinches
IdentifierAEA0072
ExhibitionCorroborations 2013
NoteCorroborations 2013 was held at the University Libraries, The University of South Dakota, from January 28 – May 3, 2013. The Corroborations 2013 exhibition paired USD visual arts and poetry majors in order to create new collaborative work and to both broaden acceptance and appreciation of alternative art disciplines.
RightsCopyright © 2013, Sarah Henning
Digitization SpecificationsAEA0072 Master file format: 11035827 bytes, 8 bit, Grayscale, 2907 x 3791, 300ppi, uncompressed, image/tif, MD5: 9427afbd31cdb9b649d7d46698a3d9c3, Microtek ScanMaker 1000XL Pro flatbed scanner, Microtek ScanWizard Pro Version 7.043 for Windows, Adobe Bridge CS4 (64 bit) Windows, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 2009 Service Pack 1 (64 bit)
Date Digital2013-01-28
Languageeng
TypeImage
Still Image
Text
Formatimage/jp2
Digital PublisherUniversity of South Dakota. University Libraries
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