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This photo is of a piece that I submitted for a juried show at PoetHouse with the theme "Memento Mori" - a latin phrase, meaning (basically) "Remember, you shall die".
The title of the entire piece (The long fall back to the center, pictured below), was inspired by Bone Poem, by Mary Oliver.
Bone Poem
by Mary Oliver
The litter under the tree
Where the owl eats--shrapnel
Of rat bones, gull debris--
Sinks into the wet leaves
Where time sits with her slow spoon,
Where we become singular, and a quickening
From light years away
Saves and maintains. O holy
Protein, O hallowed lime,
O precious clay!
The cracked bones
Of the owl's most recent feast
Lean like shipwreck, starting
The long fall back to the center--
The seepage, the flowing,
The equity, sooner or later
In the shimmering leaves
The rat will learn to fly, the owl
Will be devoured.
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