TWO CHAIRS 2

Air spanned, passage waited, the balance rode, 

Nothing prevailed, whatever was in store, 

Witnessed itself, already taking place 

In a time marked by assent and by hiatus.

    — Seamus Heaney

Two chairs cushion possibility. Any horizon mirrors a dreaming beyond utility. Sit, unfolding. Witness, holding discrete revelation, a quiet recognition. The moment glimmers. Yielding smiling stars who delight in constellating the stories you wish seek to say tell. Sit, listen. Absence of words said. Sighing, instead.

FURTHER

— TWO CHAIRS 1 posted July 1 2022. Click link or menu to 2022 July.

NOTES

— Seamus Heaney (1939-2013, Irish) from the poem Squarings in Seeing Things (1991)

— Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008, Palestinian) from In the Presence of Absence (2006), trans from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon (2011)

Be me so I can be you! Rise up so I can carry you! Come near so I can know you! Go far away so I can know you! 

    — Mahmoud Darwish

FORCES OF HABIT

“… the Secretary (of Defense Austin) will be directing multiple forthcoming force posture moves to bolster force protection for US forces…” — Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh, Press Briefing, August 2, 2024

"...global defense is dynamic..."

"...evolving national security threats..."

"...ironclad support..."

"...international rules based order..."

"...future defensive force posture..."

"...further escalation is not inevitable..."

 

In the rush-wave of current spectacle, history fades to shadow, memory hovers out of sight, ghosts decry…
The now past yesterday when/where “news” — on-the-ground unrelenting brutal for some and on-line imagined thumbs-up/thumbs-down for many — is marked/noted/managed unrelenting stream of “live” minutes… rededication to the forces of each cycle, the very inevitable forces of habit. —DB
 

NOTES
— Captions/phrases from Sabrina Singh’s press briefing statement, August 2, 2024. (Link)

— Murals at City of Eugene Skatepark by Portland artist Ashley Montague painted in 2014 on pillars of Washington-Jefferson freeway bridge as the I-105 connects with 7th street in west Eugene.  Art ever evolves —  damaged without repair by Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) during bridge reconstruction about five years.  Layering cumulative graffiti... art, concrete cuttings, pipes, spray-can washes, random scribblings — ongoing urban forces of habit.