Teatime of the soul

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper
22 x 30"

Acrylic on paper
22 x 30"

Acrylic on paper
22 x 30"

Acrylic on paper
22 x 30"

Black and white gesso on paper

15 by 22"

Black and white gesso on paper

15 by 22"

Black and white gesso on paper

15 by 22"

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 15”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Ink and gouache on paper 6 by 8”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Acrylic on paper 22 by 30”

Description

Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars.

Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,
Pepper hot and sharp.

Sometimes, instead, I stir myself
Into a universe still young,
Still warm as blood:

No outer space, just space,
The light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist,
And all of us, and everything
Already there
But unconstrained by form.

And sometime it’s enough
To lie down here on earth
Beside our long ancestral bones:

To walk across the cobble fields
Of our discarded skulls,
Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis,
Thinking: whatever left these husks
Flew off on bright wings.

          Antidotes to fear of death
          by Rebecca Elson