Connection idea/work in progress

Connection  

​I call this home
Each blade of grass
Each stone underfoot
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Home
 
A homeland into which
I pour my memories
to connect
with the rocks
The voices
The sighs of the ancestors
Who walked this land before me
 
If I place my foot
 
Here
 
There is an invisible thread
Connecting me
Through grass
And earth
And rock
Through the molten core
Through seabed and warm salt water
Anchoring me
To a teardrop island
 
Perhaps if I lift my foot
I will feel a tug on the thread
Perhaps the other end
Is connected to a girl
With long black plaits,
Walking under the scorching sun
By the bomb-blasted palmyrah trees.
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                                 N. Thambar

R & D Connection/music, image and text from niroshini thambar .

illustration and basic maquette by Ailie Cohen
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