Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

 

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Volume 11 Number 1, April 2010

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WHITE

 

I'm writing with a white pencil (on the black inside cover of my note pad)

because there's a Buddha sitting on the lawn of a farm house

just as you enter the tiniest of villages, Koster, on the island of Møn

 

At first it looks out of place until you remember

that a Nobel-Prize winning German novelist has a home on the island

and that its light, so clear on this spring day, has beckoned a bundle of artists

 

(I remember from school that artists come in schools - but so do fish

and the fisheries around here aren't doing as well as the artists these days)

 

The butt of the island where it juts the furthest into the Baltic Sea

tells its 70 million year-old story, displaying a chalky grin

not unlike that exhibited by the more celebrated artist at Dover

 

- P.K. Brask