the gates of delerium

"The Gates of Delirium"

 

Metaphors are dangerous things:

We invent them as mnemonics,

Clues to what is urgent

in experience,

Keys to best found practice

that with repetition

become in time religion.

But then, time heaped on time,

to break free of the cage

that we've become,

We turn and rend it all

And so remember nothing.

 

Would that memory were a crystal

Manifesting everything!

Or if life were less a miracle

To be compassed by a string. . .

 

john h. taylor 3-23-01

 

tw and i found this on a midnight night photo-stroll in midtown. when he suggested the area i really got excited, because there was a section of the promenade II building i had always wanted to capture. this is part of the archway underneath the structure, and i can't wait to go back and get a few more snaps...

 

brt 4-05-08

 

Done