SIGNS AND STONES AND SNAKES, my project towards a new millennium 1999-2000

Documentation on a social mail art project in support of the Cuereghem area in Anderlecht, Brussels. A park was built on a wasteland right above the underground river Zenne. Snake murals by local kids and artists surrounded the park. A promised catalogue never saw the light, so that was a lesson in cooperation with local authorities. Nevertheless the snake project became one of the best mail art projects I developed, so no regrets !!! Non, je ne regrette rien (dixit Edith Piaf)

vrijdag 10 juni 2011

A SNAKE POEM BY THEODORE ROETHKE

Theodore Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.
(From Wikipedia)

SNAKE

by Theodore Roethke

I saw a young snake glide

Out of the mottled shade

And hang, limp on a stone:

A thin mouth, and a tongue

Stayed, in the still air.

It turned; it drew away;

Its shadow bent in half;

It quickened and was gone

I felt my slow blood warm.

I longed to be that thing.

The pure, sensuous form.

And I may be, some time.