Sterile Soil
Know that we did everything in our power at first
to keep the single egg entombed, my scarlet carcass,
a safe, but when the animals inside me began to feed,
I could not keep their black tongues at bay.
He tried to keep me from hating my womb,
whispering words like again, different, not your fault.
So we knelt in the blood and prayed for wet soil again,
a dark tunnel out of the hunger, seed that sticks,
but when the dead stayed dead we curled up
in the back bedroom for hours, in a deep stupor.
I begged him to lay on top of me, to bury me
beneath his body, to press his belly to my face
so I might want for air, so I might feel some comfort
in being so close to death. I wanted him to see me blue,
to know what it was like for a blue thing to come out of you,
but he refused, so we laid still listening to the squall outside,
imagining our children scattered behind the house.
Nothing but large fields lay behind us now, sterile soil,
and there is no conception, only stench
scissors, razors, shears, and brilliant blue
birds like shadows, sober and naked on the ground.
ON THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE is a roundtable discussion on the urban economics of arts organizations within New York City. This discussion will look into specific moments of innovation that have allowed for some of New York City’s most provocative cultural organizations to thrive.
The city’s urban condition is in many ways a continuous cultural experiment -- often necessitating innovation. Its economics are driving towards highly specialized districts that are as dense, large, and lucrative as possible. This challenges the ability for smaller businesses and particularly smaller cultural organizations to exist sustainably. It threatens the notion of the city -- offered by political scientist Iris Marion Young -- as place that is “heterogeneous, plural and playful, a place where people witness and appreciate diverse cultural expressions that they do not share and do not fully understand.” For New York City to maintain this effect on our world view, it must contain cultural organizations at an extreme variety of scales and genres. This discussion questions how visionary cultural progression is taking place within these seeming constraints of the city.
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So, I think these guys are bit more in touch. Responsible, contemporary design within a rising economy afflicted with desertification and drought. Pretty just threw up in the desert.
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