On April 22, the exhibition All for Water opened at Two Rivers Gallery. If you remember my post from last March, you might recognize that this is the group exhibition that was postponed, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. My stitched artwork, What Story will you Tell?, is up for viewing until July 4.
If you cannot make it to the gallery, you can see more photos of the piece on my website or on that March post I was talking about.
The disc in the middle contains a palindrome-like poem. I say palindrome-like because I reversed the lines of the poem, rather than the individual words. The two columns of words are oriented 180 degrees to one another, so the disc needs to be turned to read both sides.
The palindrome-like poem reads like this one way:
I remember
Waters running clear and cool
Fish in the deep
Dragonflies in the air and
Birds tweeting, cawing, calling.
Listen!
Children squealing with delight
As they dip their toes in the water
That sparkles in the sun, then
Whoosh! goes the fly
To catch the fish
And then
A change.
Not so long ago
There was,
You see
A “No Swimming” sign
On a streambank with
Litter,
Slime and
No more
Fisherman
Or children’s laughter or the
Calling
of birds
The sounds you wished for
As you stood by
Feeling helpless and
Watching the oily brown water flow past
Do you remember?
And like this the other way:
Do you remember
Watching the oily brown water flow past?
Feeling helpless and,
As you stood by,
The sounds you wished for
Of birds
Calling
Or children’s laughter or the
Fisherman
And no more
Slime and
Litter
On a streambank with
A “No Swimming” sign.
You see,
There was,
Not so long ago,
A change.
And then
To catch the fish
Whoosh! goes the fly
That sparkles in the sun, then
As they dip their toes in the water
Children squealing with delight.
Listen!
Birds tweeting, cawing, calling
Dragonflies in the air and
Fish in the deep
Waters running clear and cool.
I remember.
What story will you tell your grandchildren?
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