my life as a artist
she sits amongst the cabbages and peas
Wednesday 23rd May 2007 12:29 AM
Ten days ago, at a car-boot sale, I bought some cheap lilies. ( that's to say I paid under the going market rate for them, I'm not saying that the lilies were in any way vulgar or lacking in integrity)
About five days ago, three of the top buds opened on the same day, and gave birth to three immaculate flowers. The visitation of such strange perfection, in so imperfect a caravan, caused me to give full rein to my wonderment at the magnificence of the natural world. This wonderment was tinged with a certain anxiety. If I am of the natural world, and heir to the harmonious beauty of her sublime symmetry and rhythms, why does my caravan look like a shit-heap?
I think this might have something to do with free will. I suspect lilies don't have free will, and even if they did have free will, what would they do with it? Probably behave really badly like the chickens. (I've just had to tell the same bantam to leave my caravan for the fifth time in fifteen minutes. I know they haven't got a great memory, but that's sheer wilfulness.) Maybe lilies do have free will and choose to align themselves to the will of God. I had a motorbike like that once.
As soon as those lilies reached maximum loveliness, they were dying, just as the moon at fullness starts to wane. Now there's only one lily left, hanging onto life with it's wrinkled, puckered flesh and receding gums, ready to shed it's petals to the floor, where they'll lay like feathers in a field after a fox attack.
Such brief, fierce beauty! Meanwhile, pickled and preserved in its own filth, the caravan endures in slow, lumpen functionality. I suppose I wouldn't want one that was exquisitely beautiful and then fell apart after five days. Might be nice for a weekend. As for ugly flowers that never die……..
On August 12th, 2006, in Springfield, Kentucky, a certain Basil Rose and one Lily Woodruff were married by a Reverend Herb Flowers. I just thought you ought to know.
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