Dig

A place of recognition, a mirroring of the psychic spaces and inner landscapes deployed throughout the city.

“If war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it” (Solnit)

Touch me, he said.

•

And through that opening

I did.

Lanat Abad / The Place of the Damned by Solmaz Sharif

Place can be a memory holder for paradise or pain. (Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Poetry Unbound)

“I think I’m in hell, therefore I am. It’s the catechism come true. I’m the slave of my baptism. Parents, you’ve created my tortures and yours.—Poor nitwit! Hell can’t wield power over pagans.— This is still life!”

Arthur Rimbaud, Hellish Night, translated by Bertrand Mathieu

                                               out
                                               of
                                               this
                                               hole—
                                                 —
                                               slips
                                               moon   —

           out
           of
           this
                          cloudhole

Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven, Enchantment