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London Dreaming

Cay Denise wrote me regarding a poem she wrote inspired by my “London Dreaming” piece, a digital collage and small textile wallhanging I created a few years back.  She gave me permission to post it here.  Please keep in mind that it’s her work, and please don’t use her work without her permission.  If you need to contact her, please do so here.

EMBOLDENED

Momentum
sweeps us
towards the fractals of our future…
…clouded
by an inability
to time travel the distance.

Propelled forward…
…we write our history by
the last footstep
on the path taken
of the paths not taken
where our actions and inactions
our words and
our works
make meaning of us.

A step is a mighty bridge,
from the land of what we were
to that of what we will become.
With each one
a version of us,
blooming with memory,
time and place,
creates a sculpted depiction
of that moment…forever.

Buried in future’s tombs
statues of our choices.
Some gilded… others,
ghosts of guilt,
unlived pleasures
unforgiven pains…
…haunting the histories we live with
and the origin of our next journey.

So, with every beginning
consider each step anew.
For the bridge
can take you anywhere
and be the becoming
you wish to step in to.

By CDMacKenzie 3/26/2006 (in collaboration and based on ‘London Dreaming’ digital collage by Gloria Hansen)

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