Nowhere new is a series of paintings and accompanied verses inspired by themes taken from the Herman Hesse novel Rosshalde. This is a personal ongoing project.

Click here for a synopsis of the novel.

Verses

REGRET

I am not sure when I lost you

I glance now to not see you

to sidle past

and pass through

a lonely walk to nowhere new

TO THE LOST SON

you are of me

more than you can see

your mistakes are mine

for now I am lost to you

isolated, desolate

hollow to your view

love and hate

are as shadow to the step

VACANCY

I am your home

I waited open to you

you slept alone

woke alone

to work alone

your work is for you

alone

I live now as a vacant room

filled only by the steps of our children

a cultured garden

void of light from sun or moon

I was your home

my plentiful table

our warm bed

I was warm

MY GOODBYE

life is death my darling

there is nothing I can do

our time and space

lost with gravity

there is nothing I can do

REBIRTH

you do not own what you attain

what you have holds you

creates your walls, earth and sky

intertwined they form who you are

your sense of self

the anchor to that which your inner curtain obscures

let go

a past stands still and cannot follow