Public Works

12/15/07

happy Saturday

to stay home

if I choose to

guard my health

for the week

ahead

nearly 7am

the daylight seeping

into the slip

strip sky above

my warehouse canyon

called Taffee Place

rising at 5:30

with no school day

to go to I have slept

since 9:30 last night

yes: the wild Friday nights

Benjie falling out

during the PBS news fest

halfway through Bill Moyers Journal

waking in the midst of Charlie Rose

genuflecting to sartorial king Bill Clinton

who didn’t disappoint Charlie

but didn’t engage me

I returned to sleep

I retired to dream

to sleep

my heating pad corset

strapped on

for relief

I have worn

since Monday

grateful I can sleep

with my back sprain

spasms wishing

I had pain pills for

to make it

through these days

less gingerly guarding

girding my movements

with kindergarteners’ ways

their tiny chairs

I should not

be lifting

but I do

Ben Trimmier

Rebecca Pollack

Rebecca Pollock, Become
December 2005 to December 2006
Mural for Taffee Playground, Taffee Pl, Park & Myrtle Aves, Brooklyn

Image: courtesy of the artist

Description:
This mural covers a temporary wall adjacent to Taffee Playground. The subject of it relates to the omnipresence of litter in the neighborhood surrounding the playground. The artist selected the black plastic shopping bag as a symbol of this urban problem. “Rather than focus on the carelessness that this object represents when found in the street, I’ve chosen to sculpt it into another kind of debris: a leaf,” says Rebecca Pollock, the artist. “Become encourages others to make similar leaps of the imagination with all the elements of their environment. I hope that this image will promote a spirit of making something beautiful out of something ugly and making the most out of limitation.”

Ms. Pollock is enrolled in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.