On An Overgrown Path is a personal and random journey that explores the links between Stradivarius violins, computers, the internet, the music of William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, the poetry of Leonard Cohen and much more.
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12 JUne 2007
A silver sky
ripe for the mirror.
you can not see yourself in this mirror
you can only see others
moreover, you can only see what others choose to expose.
Their houses, their boats, their sea-doos.
Birds skimming low over the water could
like as not
see them selves if they were to look down
as they skim low over the water
but they never do.
Rather they allow their reflections to chase them
quick and sharp over the still, glistening waters
while the bird's mind remains ever fixed on
food, or other birds, or escaping those damn noisy humans.
A dense forest impenetrable as a gaze.
Posted: June 13th, 2007 | Report This Comment