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Night WorkIn the changeling air of morning they are silhouettes. Dark singles with the duskiness of pre-dawn upon them and later, the shading of dust and sweat. Busying themselves in buildings, upon scaffolds, and on the black washed sidewalks, they are phantoms of the city-guardians of parking allotments lobby desks, toll booths, meter the all-nights and delivery deals At bus stops they are sentinels and the drivers. Launderers and cleaners readying the offices and the untidy houses of privilege. prepare for the tables heaping up meals for the well-fed, the disabled or the indifferent. Trash-takers, making range for more. Nurses, eternally watching. When my mother, starting the stove at 5am, direct the eyeed out the window, she saw her father, days after his funeral. Had he tend hitherward back to the field and the plowing left undone when the chain snapped and struck him, knotting his throat into pain and its aftershock of silence? Did he turn back to reclaim the work like a part of himself unfulfilled, and his story untold? He is with us still, she said to the inchoate brightness. He is there, level now. Spirits are a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of the same in those uncensored hours-flitting dim figures, half-remembered apparitions, whose industry make news and undergirds our own. They are our counterparts: the whispering reflected sound of that other, turning as we make go round in bed, the sigh that heaves in the wake of a certain quantity of unseen act. In the darkness, where a revolution of time of making and unmaking expands If anything could help us believe in their benign nearness it is the workers, anonymous and perpetual as stars, a collective of organ of visions and hands, conjuring. Sharan Strange's piece of poetrys have appeared in several journals and anthologies, and have been part of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in novel York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She is a founding member of The Dark sweep Collective. She lives and teaches in Washington, DC Copyright World metrical composition Incorporated Mar/Apr 1998 A customer, who haves a furniture store, approached me with a series of photographs he was given by means of a leather chair manufacturer. The chairs--and the pictures featuring them--were beautiful, promp... REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--Redwood Editions, a drawn out time printer of Fine Art Iris/giclee prints, has formed Redwood Editions Fine Art Publishing. The first artist exhibited by the publishing company... Viking SuperSeries II centerles grinders have several fresh features and components of the like kind as digital-servo controls with Serco interface and seals that patronize the grinder's antifriction spind... RESTON, Va. -- Artist Howard Behrens has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with somersault House Publishing in Houston. According to company officials, Behrens is commonly completing work o... The Guild of Boston Artists held an opening reception in March to at hand four newly elected artist members and their work. Pictured I to r: artists Leonard Mizerek and Anita I. Johnson guild di... I am probably "preaching to the choir," since many of you who read this rounded pillar are certified yourselves and support teacher certification. Hopefully you will share these remarks with e... To succe in today's aggressive and fast-changing marketplace, companies and organizations ne to continually identify their competitive advantage to either clutch or increase market share. They ... Anonymous American Machinist 07-01-2002 alphabetic characters Byline: Anonymous Volume: 146 Number: 7 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: 07-01-2002 Page: 14 ... SAN FRANCISCO--The de Young Museum will reopen its doors upon Oct. 15, 2005, in a fresh landmark building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog and de Meuron in collaboration with Fong... |
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