Everything that the pencil says is erasable,
Unlike our voices, whose words are black and permanent,
Smudging our lives like coal dust,
unlike our memories,
Etched like a skyline
against the mind,
Unlike our irretrievable deeds ...
The pencil spills everything,
and then takes everything back.
--Charles Wright, from "October II" in Black Zodiac (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997)Unlike our voices, whose words are black and permanent,
Smudging our lives like coal dust,
unlike our memories,
Etched like a skyline
against the mind,
Unlike our irretrievable deeds ...
The pencil spills everything,
and then takes everything back.
Please join us for a reception at
OMEN AZEN Restaurant
Saturday & Sunday | December 15-16 | noon to 3pm
whiteness to nothingness
celebrating 30 years with ceramics by
Catherine White & Warren Frederick
catalog/calendar/essays:
https://sketchbookpress.com/omen
113 Thompson Street (between Prince & Spring)
New York, NY 10012
212.925.8923
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