Venice masks

Thursday 6 October 2022

As always me - Shrinivási

As always me
farmer, peasant, kunukeru
admiring the annual growth rings
in the cross section cut of a tree trunk
revealing the good and bad years
far away today
I am confronted daily
with autumnal days
one foot in the winter season
but love, loneliness and death
are triumphant
as the ‘Drie gebroeders’ on Korsou
annual growth rings of sickness and survival
like my dear mother I am
physically weak
embedded in a strong spirit
annual growth rings
what an amazing discovery
annual growth rings
an amazing discovery
that in a split second
made me Eternal
thoughtless and speechless

Dedicated to Cynthia Abrahams
Elisabeth Gasthuis, room 9
24 August 2012

Shrinivási (full name Martinus Haridat Lutchman) (1926 - 2019) Suriname

Drie gebroeders (Three brothers) - three hills on Curaçao (Korsou), remains of a coral reef that was formed at least three million years ago and has risen far above sea level through volcanic activity.

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