AI art inspired by Ithell Colquhoun
By Taina Lyons
I’m courting the Future
With a sideways glance,
and forward glance
and backward glance,
I see them,
a vision of beauty,
brilliant garments woven
with patterns from nature
and rainbow hues
I’m courting the future,
beckoning them with a smile,
whispering to my child,
“Will you go tell them I want to meet them?”
They come closer,
but do not touch me,
not yet,
although I see them in so many spaces
where I play and work and grieve
I’ll better myself for you, Future
you’re worth it
I see myself and my belonging more clearly
because of you
You’ve inspired so many of us in this way,
I want to tell them
If you come,
meet me here in the present
and take my hand.
I’ll follow you wherever you lead
I’ll call you by any one of your many names:
justice, peace, mystery,
flower, river, nest,
oak, elk, stone
I’ll bury a time capsule
and in 100 years or 1000
we can open it together
and look at these old love letters
and all of the bullets
and songs and species we used to know
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