Sojourn
User Story
By Alison Clarke
Whyte Avenue, where artists sell their wares: I get a print of unforgettable fairies, sprites,
the daughters of Mother Muse; one, deep in thought, a meditation, on her knees, in yin
and yang reverie, the others ready to take flight, to another world: to Neverland perhaps,
to see Peter and Tinker Bell? Only in Old Strathcona, can I go to Paris, The Moon,
The Milky Way, Black Holes, Worm Ones Too--Stars Being Born--
A Universe's NURSERY--And Those Who Are Fading...Dwarves Turning In On Their Fiery
Embers...Their Mission Of Illumination, Wonder, And Awe, Near Over, The Dwarves Gracefully Take Their BOW...I travel to the South Of France,
Seeing Vincent's Sunflowers, Daisies, And Roses--Blushing With A Beautiful Pink
Pastel Look: Easily Catching My Eye--And The Rockies in FULL FORCE, God's Canvas That Survives The Ages, The Stories That They Could Tell, If The WIND could carry
A Human Voice...People, who have scaled it, and Those...
Bookmarks that carry the History Of Whyte Avenue, otherwise, Destroyed By Stores
Relocating, The Fire Of 2003--Art, like Books, another Memory, when the Human One
Fails--Journey within a journey, The Physical, The Metaphysical, The Emotional,
The Mental, The Spiritual, all by Walking Along The Avenue, Throngs Of Potential Buyers,
Swarming Around The Artists' Thoughts, Manifested In Serene Images, Of Pristine Lakes, Haunting Mountains, And Animals, Extinct, Or Near Extinct, like the Grizzly Bears Who Are In Danger Of--Art, creates a memory that can spark Awareness And Action:
The Power Of Art, Consciously, Or Unconsciously...The Strength Of Traversing Along Old Strathcona...
The North Of The Prairies, The Cultural Capital, The Sphere Of Artistic Creativity--
all Centred, Gravitated, Attracted to An Area Of A City, Built Long Ago...A City Within
A City...The Landscape, The Geography, Influencing, Transforming, The Culture,
The Economy, Traversing Along Old Strathcona...Edmonton...Near The HInterland,
It's A Wonderland, The Hub of Creativity...Geography, History, Landscape, Culture,
Economy, All Intersecting, And Merging, The Beauty Of Old Strathcona--
