A Brush with Words: Icarus
Sally Scott, ‘Icarus’ Sandblasted and Engraved Flash Glass Disc
22″ diameter; slate base 7″ x 27″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, A Brush with Words, here is Icarus, by Sally Scott and Tricia Torrington.
Tonight
(for Icarus)
Tonight I would give you a list of things
not to forget…
Keep land in mind, your feet
tipped to the magnetic -
I wish it was tonight we could become
extraordinary
for the sky is bright enough with all
its winking heroes
Orion, Perseus, the shield of Achilleus -
and the Wain,
keep that in mind, that group of stars
that turns always
on the same point, the only ones that never bathe
in the sea -
Tonight I would have you remember Homer’s
“weariless sun”,
It is love that attracts us like moths.
But how it burns.
Tricia Torrington
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