Earlier in the year I was invited to participate in an intervention art trail at the William Cowper Museum curated by Wayne Warren.(picture above) Barney had just died and recognising Cowper's love of his pet ducks, I wrote:
Hymn
Iff one word is enough for a fatal
dream,
The jaws of a dying boy have a slow
hinge of tears like loss
Pressing air from those lungs auxetic pain
perpendicular
to the force applied,
More words offer astheny
Extreme separation without end its inverse
ratio
of not at this address
For
the dialogue of men fades to
Irrelevant by name forgotten but for name
I know the name but don’t know the
work
Unlike song its shiny
hopeful eyes implying needs
And small creature openings.
It was initially displayed in a display case with a Cowper poem and later moved to be displayed on a typewriter. Also included in the show Jayne Dyer and Jonathan Wright .
