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.
