Kate Reilly has supplied this week’s #writeme30 photo. Kate and I went to school together in Burra (a really cute little town in the mid north of South Australia) and like many other friends through our family’s many moves we lost touch over time. Through the power of ye olde facebook we’ve since connected again in a loose sort of way and Kate has shared this photo from a safari in her backyard last winter.
The sour sobs in the photo very much reminded me of Burra – as kids we all used to eat them!
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been participating in the #futurepresent residency with Vitalstatistix and Urban Theatre Projects. During the residency which finished a few days ago, our team watched this short video from futurist Kristin Alford:
The loss of bees in the future really stood out to me and reminded me of Kate’s photo. Although I’ve heard about the risk to bee populations before, something about Kristin’s talk made it seem more real than it’s felt before. I love honey on toast. I’ll really miss honey in the future. What does that mean? I don’t know yet, but it’s something to think about.
So here’s the first #writeme30 post for June.
The Photo:
Photo supplied by Kate Reilly
The Response – Honey-less:
These days spin
Left waiting in wrappers
Soft with
Warm days
Warm thoughts
To reach into the future
To pluck out these weeds
Ease our days in walls left untended.
Eyes left un-mended, and now,
Now.
This winged, waiting breath. Just breathed.
With hands too small to capture
Eyelids pulling at the wind
Reigned in,
To beginnings,
Fresh with ice
Trailing longing
Weeping forgotten
To sit.
Gently perched,
On future dreams.
* I will be a few weeks short of photos so if you would like to submit a photo for me to respond to, you would be very welcome to. Email it to me at: pressurelandsATmeDOTcom
** #writeme30 posts are published ‘as is’ without any editing or curating as the project is about exploring my responses to the photographs supplied. Some posts may plant the seeds for future writing projects but they are not written with that in mind.
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