Lydia Sparrow by Michal Teig

now the moon is a failure on the terrace
nudging September so that it might see
my little donkey growing older in the lot,

the fields unraveling and the far waves draw up
on their glass knees. Nudging October
so that the snow comes down like in a book.

I would ask you to hurry. It’s late.
The hotels grow wild and deserted.
Into their chambers the deer pulse and dwindle.

Already the last migrants pass
towards some less punishable landscape.
The plovers parallel the coast.

Following what? The thought of arrival?
A glass chapel? Blaze the cages.
Hang the crickets. There should be music.

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Written by Michael Teig - Concept & design by Marie-Chantale Turgeon
Prgramming and concept: Antoine Girard and Pier-Hugues Pellerin

Michael Teig is the author of Big Back Yard (BOA Editions 2003).
Marie-Chantale Turgeon is an art director, illustrator, and web designer, among other things. She lives in Montreal.
As an active blogger, she is a trend observer in the development of the ever-expanding medium that is the internet,
providing her artistic point of view as part of this new indie subculture.
Visit her website mcturgeon.com, and her weblog at mcturgeon.com/blog.


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About this project:
This is an experience where we try to visually measure the impact of art on the viewer -
in this case, on the reader of a chosen poem called "Lydia Sparrow".
While experiencing the poem, readers will be asked to identify their feelings regarding what they are reading.
This will result in a new piece of art--generated by the impact of the poem on the reader--
that combines random pictures created by random users from around the world.
This use of Flickr's API creates a unique and evolving piece of art in which thousands of humans will be participating.

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