respond

From Latin – respondere “respond, answer to, promise in return,”

derives from re- “back” + spondere “to pledge

and then I wrote something like this – as a kind of response to this http://www.chequerboard.net/art.html – but I don’t know what kind of a thing it is – tis hardly a criticism, tis hardly an applause…

Is it a pledge-back?

Not nostalgia –

paper pasts
darker
rougher
colonized
proud
austere
timeless
classic
frozen
footpaths
dirt
snow
journeying
pushing towards the invisible
for power
an empire
shards and fragments
of images
chosen
saved
kept
pieces left
unused
the bits that remain
how we remain with them
proud mercenary
tied to each other
with string
separated by glass
reflecting glass

the currency
the flight
the plan
the design
all weeping in decay
stretching out and
behind
ageing and stoic
soldered badges
of posterity
Orchestrated in harmonious random order 

the lull
the rhythm
the confidence
pulling you along
through your centre
out from within
on a strange story
of redemption
celebration
light
pulled out
from the darker caves
of collectors
debris
spun back into itself
Refrain –

backwards
pacing
breathe
slow
Suspend

The wake of time
sleeps us all
in its lullaby

Say goodbye
Say goodnight

the lights dim
closing down the lids
of eyes
and pianos

The darkest age
becomes glorious
in the honeyed glow
of memory and heartache

Old sounds
beat out their new existence
scratching
impatient
the needle and shellac
resonating with our analogue
pulling at metaphor
pulling us back
into dreams
and Daydreams
And pushing us out
Into concepts…

J.D.F.