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GRASS

GRASS

Græs

May 2021

Pen and black ink, 18,3 x 27,5 cm.

I was inspired to make this drawing by the following poem:

GRASS

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work –

                                       I am the grass: I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

                                       What place is this?

                                       Where are we now?

                                       I am the grass.

                                       Let me work.

                                                Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918)

Description

GRASS

GRASS

Græs

May 2021

Pen and black ink, 18,3 x 27,5 cm.

I was inspired to make this drawing by the following poem:

GRASS

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work –

                                       I am the grass: I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

                                       What place is this?

                                       Where are we now?

                                       I am the grass.

                                       Let me work.

                                                Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918)