“It
is only a question of discovering how we can get ourselves attached
to it again”
-a
drawing by Vija Celmins
I
practice interruption to get used to it, get up to get the cup
and
then sit down, go out to look at the sign on the corner, sit
down,
open the book to 37, “Moon Surface [Luna 9],” close
it,
open my mouth to get used to what it says and then
in
some weathers, it’s offered up freely and you have to
cover
the books in plastic, remember to take it with you just in case
and
you have to be grateful not to think things up.
Her
surface drawings put one squarely on the moon
and
there’s nothing to take your mind off it, no one brings coffee,
and
she’s reminded of a scene where the actor talks about how
he’s
scared to leap off a balcony and then he finally leaps.
Someone
keeps coming to the door, someone makes a mark
like
graphite until it builds up slowly on the surface.
Martha
Ronk,“Vertigo,” 2007.
