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Ask Much, Want More
"Ask Much, Want More" - oil on paper, 17 x 22.5. This piece is unmounted and unframed.
Ask much, the voice suggested, and I startled.
Feeling my body like the trembling body of a horse
tied to its tree while the strange noise
passes over its ears.
I who in extremity had always wanted less,
even of eating, of sleeping.
Agile, the voice did not speak again, but waited.
“Want more” -
a cure for longing I had not thought of.
But that is how it is with wells.
Whatever is taken refills to the steady level.
The voice agreed, though softly, to quiet the feet of the horse:
A cup taken out, a cup reappears; a bucketful taken, a bucket.
- JANE HIRSHFIELD, Ask Much, The Voice Suggested
This piece is sold unframed. It will be shipped flat, carefully packaged in mostly repurposed shipping materials. International buyers please email for a shipping quote.
This item is an original work of art. Copyright owned by Lola Jovan.