
ASH
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MONDAY 24 MARCH 2025 19.00 AT
ATALANTE – TICKETS HERE
shared evening with Lars Henning's
"I Do Remember Nothing"
ASH is a meditation upon the intimate struggles of mankind to prove itself worthy of recognition by either gods, spirits, or other human beings.
The substance that stirs in my palm
could well be a dead man; no need
to show surprise at the dizzy acts of wind. My old father sitting uncertainly three feet away
is the slow cloud against the sky:
so my heart's beating makes of me a survivor over here where the sun quietly sets. The ways of freeing myself:
something makes me keep close to the walls
as though I was afraid of that justice in the shadows.
Now the world passes into my eye:
the birds flutter toward rest around the tree, the clock jerks each memory towards the present to become a past, floating away like ash, over the bank.
My own stirrings like the wind's
keep hoping for the solace that would be me in my father's eyes
to pour the good years back on my;
the dead man who licks my palms
is more likely to encourage my dark intolerance rather than turn me
toward some strangely solemn charade:
the dumb order of the myth
lined up in the life-field,
the unconcerned wind perhaps truer than the rest, rustling the empty, bodiless grains.
RADIX is supported by The City of Gothenburg Arts and Cultural Affairs Committee and The Region Västra Götaland Cultural Affairs Committee
