Wide Awake, Dream in Lilac Time
©October 12th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
Wide Awake*,
I shut my eyes
in order to see.*
Visions of
Outsider Artists
hang like menaces.
What lies
Within us, and
Within us,
What lies!
Between the lashes
Of your eyes,
Dream in Lilac Time:*
Illusions of perspective
Unmatched in translucence.
Casual waves from the
Pattern of punches.
Selfies might be another matter.
Here, then are faces!*
The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile
rock.*
How quiet the truth and falsehood
Of different selves!
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Note: ALL THESE LINES are from the following:
A sticker for the Wide Awake Bakery (owned and operated by my brother in law) (on our refrigerator)
I shut my eyes in order to see is from Paul Gauguin– refrigerator magnet
What lies within us is from Emerson — refrigerator magnet
All the rest are from a magazine I used, opening randomly to lines and phrases in different pages — Artscope Sept. Oct. 2015 (dubs itself “New England’s Premier Culture Magazine”).
“Dream in Lilac Time” is the title of Gail Skuder’s foot-wide scroll-artwork, described as a “physical manifestation of lyric and melody.” (from the same magazine, Artscope)
*Here then are faces and The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile
rock are lines from Leaves of Grass:: Poem of Faces by Walt Whitman