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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Lifelines

Lifelines, 2020, pigmented drawing ink, gouache and watercolour on Khadi paper

Crisis is a Hair
Toward which the forces creep
Past which causes retrograde 
If it come in sleep

To suspend the breath 
Is the most we can
Ignorant is it Life or Death
Nicely balancing.

Let an instant push
Or an atom press
Or a Circle hesitate
In Circumference 

It - may jolt the Hand
That adjusts the Hair
That secures Eternity
From presenting - Here -

Emily Dickinson