Project Description
The Weight of Things
For Still: The Journal
In a house that is not yet home, I am heavy.
Heavy with the weight of flight, and the things I have brought with me. Flight requires us to get lighter, even as we clamp down with claws that won’t let go of some things. For we know there is a heaviness even in lightness, that the uprooted heart lies heavy in the night.
{painting by Charles E. Burchfield, “Milkweed,” 1929. public domain.}