Changing the Actual Scheme of Things in Sweden
“Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself.
Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind.
Sometimes an image that has stood so long
It seems implanted as the polar star
Is moved against an unfathomed force
That suddenly will not have it any more…”
“That force exists and moves.
And when it moves
It will imploy a hard and actual stone
To batter into bits an actual wall
And change the actual scheme of things.”
The quote is from “John Brown’s Body” by Stephen Vincent Benét. The photo is from Sweden, where 128 hens sleep in comfort tonight, having been liberated from battery cages. You can read a newspaper report about the rescue (if you can read Swedish) here and see more post-rescue photos here.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Proof that there is still power in poetry. Thanks for posting this — it’s amazing.