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A frozen garden expects a new flower. Expects, the way frozen furniture expects experiences that subvert earlier ones and set up a “subversive” life: full of hope, little repetition.
Objects know that material is followed by form but now they are frozen, flexibility reduced to minimum – and the shapes of winter sitting in garden chairs are suppositions, sounds without movement. Cracking fur, a crunching sleeve, icy lace and a shoe that slips under the snow like a startled mole.
The frozen garden expects a new flower, snow, flower, snow until no one knows which one is which. A bloom is followed by deep freeze, deep freeze by redness and the heart will never fester, the seed will never be crushed at birth, and the image of god is immortal.
Everything piles up, but on whose shoulders? When you arrived there was a moose living under the garden, or at least existing. His horns fruit trees. A bright flame under the surface. A heavy cloud on the forehead. An innocent blood maple oozing out of a spot between his eyes.
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