Wednesday, October 20, 2010

meaty mental health metaphors. by palmer fishman


"running"

when everything looks the same -
all the olive trees in rows upon rows
the dry brush snapping under your feet
the evergreens, the rock, the shale
you think you’re finding your way home and 
               then, like Pooh bear, see the same 
               puddle
 and 
        realize
                       you’re 
             going
        in 
circles


so u turn to go the other way
           to see if it looks familiar, and its 
            completely different 
and you’re

      lost                           again

have to keep going 
                                round 
                                         the circle
                                   till 
                               u recognize
                           it 
                    AS 
             a 
    circle

then have to get 
     up the nerve to
                cut out thru the 
           brush, scratching your legs,
                 and into 
the 
washed-
         -out riverbank
falling 
                           down
scrambling
                                                          up

till you arrive
          in a new 
place you 
                       don’t recognize
and start 

































































over

4 comments:

  1. Nothing feels more circular than healing. Except for maybe everything about being alive... Anyway- I know what you mean here. I feel like I go in circles and think I am back in the same place- but it never really is. There is always the healing, the changing, the moving forward.

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  2. I forgot to mention that this is a true account of my first run up the mountain by Can Serrat, our art residency in Spain. In addition there was just a massive, once-in-a-hundred-years flood that washed out sections of all the trails and moved thousands of tons of earth. Earth and garbage.

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  3. Art residency, wonderfuf. And to be there to see nature in such fury.

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