Meanwhile a Pile
wooden crates from a chicken farm, etchings on cotton kitchen towels, ceramic pots glazed with ashes, woven woolen cords, ferments (nettle fertilizer, chickory kvass, pickled tomato, YADAM fertilizer with goosefoot, wild champagne with wormwood etc.)
What tickles the thistle, the nettle and the chickweed
To raise their heads and earthly power onto what heap?
Let’s sing the laws and myths and spells that make heaps grow and leak
Heaps do grow terwijl we netflix kijken, hot laptop battery on heated hip.
What alchemy of thought and skill is needed for a dagger to have pierced her witty head
Zij was wijz. Geen kwade heks whose care was for the crops and for the woven thread
„Dandelion root under a stone tapped with sea froth until the salt dissolved”:
The knowledge of the land does not expire, it’s best when shared and evolved
Komen hopen op gronden and do they stretch to burst
It’s time to name and lift the angry, earth growing-belly curse.
from Meanwhile a Pile, a song in 9 chapters based on Georgica by Vergilius
written in a personal creole of English, Romanian and Dutch
Marina Sulima 2024