Sunday 22 March 2009

Snow Men




“The human body is 61.8 percent water by weight.”

By Friday all across the Old Deer Park
in the grey dawn light
the scattered remains of snowmen
loomed out of the frozen mist
like the ancient ruins
of a Megalithic temple.

For last Monday, families gathered here
in their hundreds, and knelt in the snow for hours,
truant executives with their children
and built from the snow of the ground
fragile and frozen men.

The air filled with laughter,
and hands burnt with cold -
compelled to gather and sculpt
an image of themselves
from the pure white unbroken fields of ice.

Is it a kind of worship?
To kneel and stare
at this white line of fragile beauty
to mould a mirror image of ourselves.
And wonder at its strangeness.
To make and stand before ourselves
anew and clean -
a late Christmas gift.


© David Loffman

22 March 2009

Saturday 21 March 2009

First Thought

For a long time now the Conjuring Sunlight blog has become a sort of art blog and I've cut down on writing about my thoughts and ideas. I used to write book, music and film reviews for example. I included sermons and general observations and journal entries. These have been forced out as the One Line Project has dominated for almost two years now.

One way of managing this was to set up other blogs - Conjured Sunlight and The Sermons. However these two blogs do not cover the occasional thought or review. So here is another blog. A thoughts and ideas blog. Lets see if I'll have the time and the head space to write it.