I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better. Sleeping in the Forest - Mary Oliver KERRYN LEVY ‘Sleeping in the Forest’ Australian stoneware + black charcoal 72cm H x 57cm W x 34cm D Now showing in LANDSKEIN show in our Redfern gallery till 26th September #kerrynlevy #art #sculpture #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #clay #design #bushfires #maryoliver #sleepingintheforest #poetry #australianartist #contemporaryart #australianlandscape #curator #contemporaryinstallation https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSyXf6jRxd/?igshid=movvdsqrscjc