s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Sculpt
 Miriam Bloom & Deborah Garfinkle

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Now and Now, 2000, handmade pigmented paper & pencil over armature, 24 x 35 x 16 inches

i am not a joiner the corners should be rounded where no seam can be seen to mar the
full line that’s where I drive the paint into clay’s fissures back into the elemental form
printed on the sky they’ve tried since the first land dig tint into rock to imprint the flight
of a horse whose joints flex and bend throw the air turned out under a nave human
made the memory of which makes me shudder i dig dirt will it back a coiled stopwatch
unraveling time beat after beat tick after tick my fingers’ print fists the hands back until
they arrive back in the womb drown in water it’s there the surfacing from the cave the
ribs the cord as creation takes first breath.

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Sculpture : Miriam Bloom.  Poem: Deborah Garfinkle.

Miriam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado, grew up outside of Chicago, and has lived in New York City since 1975. She is represented by Westwood Gallery in New York City where she had a dual-retrospective exhibition with Ron Morosan this year. She and Deborah met at the MacDowell Colony in 1997 and have had an artistic dialog since then.

Deborah Garfinkle is a writer, literary critic, filmmaker and award-winning translator whose work has appeared in publications in the US and abroad.  Ms. Garfinkle was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship and PEN Translation Grant for her translation from the Czech, Worm-Eaten Time. Her other book-length translation, The Old Man’s Verses, was nominated for a Northern California Book Award. Her experimental film, Heron’s Head, was recently screened at two curated student film festivals in San Francisco.