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21 words of lent

Cheryl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:08:05 +0000

hold onto yourself,
she said,

find the edges of your being
that are lost in the wilderness.

make them yours again.

landscape of desire

Cheryl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:54:01 +0000

The installation that Jonny, Blythe and I are curating for the Adelaide Festival Fringe opened tonight. I think it’s a really beautiful space…

it’s open each night this week, between 7.30 and 9.30 at 12 Flinders St, Adelaide.

22 words of lent

Cheryl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:28:59 +0000

i forget how hard it is
to remember to be human

to fail
to be fragile

tomorrow i will not try harder

23 words of lent

Cheryl — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:19:12 +0000

i have nothing left.

I don’t feel anxious
or awful.

There’s nothing in this that’s bad
or overwhelming.

i just have nothing left.

24 words of lent

Cheryl — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:54:45 +0000

without guilt to make my choices
i lose my direction

should i lapse
just to know what to do?

is there a third way?

25 words of lent

Cheryl — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:31:51 +0000

i am so very grateful
for the people who make
any place
home
who honour the dislocated
and disconnected
moments of my days
with their love

26 words of lent

Cheryl — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:38:11 +0000

funny how writing 26 words
can be as intimidating
as a 20000 word thesis
[do the numbers count as well?
can i make that sentence longer?]

27 words of lent

Cheryl — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:26 +0000

is it naivety or blind optimism
that makes us long for the time
when it’s all better?

i want the hope that lets me live with today.

28 words of lent

Cheryl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:27:19 +0000

I have learnt to live with despair
but my discipline this lent
is to live each moment,
so i must also trust the good
for what it is

29 words of lent

Cheryl — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:06:40 +0000

holding tight to the frayed and ripped remnants
of yesterday’s dreams
not to recreate them
in a false prayer for utopia
but to find again
the hope they held