In one of the small songs in Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences Jan Zwicky creates in a minimal space an evocative scenario that shimmers with reflection upon the passage of time. Here are the opening and closing which look a lot alike and yet their differences are telling:
When summer ends,
I’ll hang my straw hat on the wall.[…]
The window will fill up with stars. My straw hat
will hang upon the wall.
“hang” is what we do. suspend.
And so for day 965
04.08.2009