{"id":87,"date":"2020-06-01T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:38:26","slug":"1-summer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/06\/01\/1-summer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 summer summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I went to the studio crying after reading the Washington Post. I was grief stricken over racial injustice, death, and uncertainty.  All I could do was to paint things black. I put a coat of black paint on a sheet of paper, a coat of graphite on a gessoed panel, and a coat of black over North Carolina red clay. It was as if all my brush could paint was a spell against hatred, racism, and anger. My hand moved in sadness and respect. Words feel useless and yet to say nothing is untenable.<\/p>\n\n\n

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SPELL TO BE SAID AGAINST HATRED<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until each breath refuses they, those, them<\/em>.
Until the Dramatis Personae<\/em> of the book\u2019s first page says, \u201cEach one is you.\u201d
Until hope bows to its hopelessness only as one self bows to another.
Until cruelty bends to its work and sees suddenly: I<\/em>.
Until anger and insult know themselves burnable legs of a useless table.
Until the unsurprised unbidden knees find themselves bending.
Until fear bows to its object as a bird\u2019s shadow bows to its bird.
Until the ache of the solitude inside the hands, the ribs, the ankles.
Until the sound the mouse makes inside the mouth of the cat.
Until the inaudible acids bathing the coral.
Until what feels no one\u2019s weighing is no longer weightless.
Until what feels no one\u2019s earning is no longer taken.
Until grief, pity, confusion, laughter, longing know themselves mirrors.
Until by we<\/em> we mean I, them you the muskrat, the tiger, the hunger.
Until by I<\/em> we mean as a dog barks, sounding and vanishing and sounding and vanishing completely.
Until by until<\/em> we mean I, we, you, them, the muskrat, the tiger, the hunger, the lonely barking of the dog before it is answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jane Hirshfield in Ledger, Alfred A. Knopf, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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