Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
Everything Flows
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Everything flows
by Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
— and when we finally fell
quiet it would be your tribe
what emerged soft barks
hesitant blinking in light
slow stepping over bones
lain still in peatbog black
earth breathe easy know
we wouldn’t leave you be
death is little but a long
sleep beneath our feet
now&again you surface
and again you surface
last of your kind still
life will remind us how
we were once this ache
this generous together
'This poem draws inspiration from Barrie Cooke's painting Megaceros Hibernicus (1983). I've been mesmerised by this painting since I encountered it in early April and have spent much time contemplating its ethereal, timeless, evocative qualities. I knew it would emerge in my own work in some form, drawing — as it does — on a deep elemental solace embodying the cyclical yet eternal nature of existence. Philosopher Heraclitus' famous words “everything flows” adorned the wall of Cooke’s studio in Thomastown and much of his art was inspired by this philosophical meditation on all things flowing gently in the stream of creation, then passing away.'
Megaceros Hibernicus
Poet's Inspiration
Image: Barrie Cooke, 'Megaceros Hibernicus', 1983, IMMA,
painting
Everything flows
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
Everything flows
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. She is the founder of the P[l]ay It Forward Fellowships and co-editor of a forthcoming commemorative anthology with The Ireland Chair of Poetry. Her poetry appears in journals and anthologies including Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly and Winter Papers. She was a recipient of the Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry.