Tuesday, July 04, 2006

I'd Give You All My Matchboxes, Joseph Cornell


My country 'tis of, anyway, let's look at this today. What's in those sky blue boxes, Joseph? Clouds? Dreams? Lightning? If the bird nest is below the fish, then twenty boxes should be enough to hold at least one hundred finch wishbones. Robins' eggs in the top four boxes, worms and grubs to feed them in the two sets of six boxes either side of the nest. If these were birds of substance, birds of certain sorts of older families, marital records and property deeds, family photographs and daguerrotypes, feathers of the saints, a sacred claw.

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