An Interview with Karen Garthe
I remember coming out of the anesthesia, drifting back from wherever it is you go, back to consciousness. I looked at my mother and said “Now, will you tell me why we’re here?”
I remember coming out of the anesthesia, drifting back from wherever it is you go, back to consciousness. I looked at my mother and said “Now, will you tell me why we’re here?”
The scientist invited me to her work, greeted me / on the icy sidewalk to usher me past guards stomping
Longing for what it already had; yea, the rain / Should have replaced the air one-for-one,
They do not know day from night, under the screaming lights, but when the men leave and the bulbs go out, they dream.
I’m always whisked to midnight / by ugly wind.
I think, “It must be she, the tree, standing attentive ...
I suppose I have been this man, regardless of what can be said of me
The tree buds are swelling, and spring emerges
the moths on paper towels are too perfect to move
Nature Nurture Illustration Series by Paula Champagne