"Awake at Night" 

 

Christian Toscano  

Opening reception: 

Saturday May 10th, 6-9pm.

May 10th-June 8th 

 

 "Stars Eat Your Body"Detail. mixed media on paper. 2008

 

AWAKE AT NIGHT 

Late in the night I pay

the unrest I owe

to the life that has never lived

and cannot live now.

What the world could be 

is my good dream

and my agony when, dreaming it, 

I lie awake and turn

and look into the dark.

I think of a luxury 

in the sturdiness and grace

of necessary things, not

in frivolity. That would heal

the earth, and heal men.

But the end, too, is part

of the pattern, the last

labor of the heart:

to learn to lie still, 

one with the earth

again, and let the world go.

-Wendell Berry