The Soul Tiller,
The freshness maker
Has come.
It was here.
Terror and
Destruction are
Good
for growing onions.
Now I spend
20 years
To finally know:
That is over.
But...
Might it be true?
Might we not
Choose to delve...
The “buried” couch is a reference to Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed within the context of childhood struggles. In Smithson’s work, he buried a woodshed just until the center beam cracked – the significance of which spoke to me about how life gives us only as much adversity as we need to crack open.
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Onions serve as a term for the way layers of psychological complexities form around traumatic experiences, snowballing over new events and feelings adding to the pile that must be unraveled or “peeled” for understanding and healing.
To reach down inside,
Without first
Having our structural
Integrity
Cracked?
The straw,
The grain, the difficulty and pain.
Draws from us
The golder,
The fodder,
The better,
The water.