Cutlery Drawer

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ton321
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One butter knife, yellowed and cracked, its handle worn with overuse.(wabi-sabi).
Six teaspoons of stainless steel variety, undetermined origin.
Three corkscrews that all worked differently.
A black pen, mizzled.

One metal skewer, carbonised.
A handfull of workaday knives and forks of the ordinary kind.
A stainless steel strainer, slighly spotted with rust.
A fowl fork with three prongs.
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.

Robert Graves
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Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:56 am

Very much like the concept/context of wabi-sabi.
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Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:04 am

Maybe its what the poems about- the broken-ness of things. Thanks for claryfying.

Tony
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.

Robert Graves
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Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:55 pm

A concept piece for sure.

I'm not a big fan of conceptual art, but conceptual poetry I can go for.

Just come back from Krakow and we visited a 'modern' art place, and on the whole, what a crock of pretentious nonsense. YET, if your piece here was presented physically, would I feel the same? because i like it, I like the history of it.

Dunno.

That said I point you to - viewtopic.php?f=20&t=21470&p=179092#p179092

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Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:12 am

I suppose it does come off a bit like "concept art" but that's not how it's intended. Sometimes objects have their own life which I was trying to get at. Maybe Ill have to Simic it up a bit. Thanks for the response
Tony
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.

Robert Graves
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