Fell Into the Ground (Rescue) - song sketch

Fell Into the Ground (Rescue) - song sketch from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

excerpt from The Way Birds Become

I felt a bird had come true.

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The possibilities you tear out of
a bird never precludes that I can see you from
underwater, like baby Jessica at the bottom of
the well, looking upward at the glimmer that used to be
the world. If a bird sees you there
it looses voice. And this we both know.
You knew that silence could be as comforting and full
as an overstuffed pillow. If you lay down
a bird, you both fall asleep
though the longer you lie, the less
I can see. The longer you stay with a bird the older it gets,
hair silvering.

I see no possibility beyond this bird, its
wings as saggy and old as a friend
unrecognizable after a long separation.
Like a longed for presence, and so easily
taken for a wolf, the bird is mere conjecture
from "pieces of the past arisen from the rubble,"
made to make do. Its flashing still causes a
trembling in every swoop of annual return.

                                                                    - Joseph Bradshaw

sketches toward

O/Doe sketches toward Children Get Stuck Places Underground from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

The Long Hours of Waiting

Moon in June

Children Get Stuck Places Underground will have reached its resolution by June's full moon, 2010.

If you are not already planning to attend the Advanced Ultrasound and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Course offered by the European Society of Radiology at this time, your presence is warmly and waterily requested.