Robbie Coburn & Michele Seminara: Collaboration #6

Poem to Distance  (Robbie Coburn)

an emptiness now irrigates the farms.

time now to think of the days beginning 

before the sound of wheels moving along the asphalt 

persisting slowly into another landscape.

  I have come to love this image of you, the unchanged figure

throwing shadows across the car bay

thinning the flesh and removing the body.

                         with your image gone

there can only be rain

washing over our footprints 

long buried in the dirt.

Gone  (Michele Seminara)

your image throwing shadows

            into emptiness; a long landscape
beginning before flesh. 

your footprints irrigate the earth

            persisting across asphalt; your body
washing in the rain of days — 

                                                         slow time unchanged.