{"id":2520,"date":"2014-02-20T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compeung.org\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2017-10-05T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:40:36","slug":"artist-virginia-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-virginia-jealous\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"

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***Australian writer Virginia Jealous will be resident at ComPeung during March and April 2014. She will be working on Flightpath: Thailand<\/b><\/em>, a project of fiction and non-fiction, written in prose and poetry. Flightpath: Thailand<\/b> <\/em>takes as its starting point the East Asian-Australiasian flyway for migratory birds and will explore literal and metaphorical notions of \u2018flightpath\u2019. It is part of a wider, regional arts initiative with plans to work widely across borders and across cultures, with local networks of all sorts \u2013 including perhaps birdwatchers, refugees and scientists \u2013 as well as with artists of all disciplines: www.flightpathproject.wordpress.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>Afterwords:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first week of my residency at Compeung, Kaye Aldenhoven \u2013 a friend and writer from Australia \u2013 was also staying in Doi Saket. We were each working, independently, on long, longer-term pieces of writing.<\/p>\n

However when we began to share some of our daily notes they often manifested as haiku \u2013 almost as short as poems can get. And it was as if, unplanned, these poems were having a conversation with each other.<\/p>\n

Here are some of these snapshots-in-words. They describe the same sensuous world, experienced differently. They are simultaneously as tangible and as ephemeral as the moment itself.<\/p>\n

Kaye\u2019s poems are to the left; mine to the right.<\/p>\n

Virginia Jealous, May 2014<\/p>\n

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from neglected mango trees
\ndrowned in creepers
\nkoel calls insistently<\/p>\n

[\/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]
\nwhite lotus buds bloom
\nwhite-breasted waterhen stalks
\nlily pads quiver
\n[\/ezcol_1half_end]<\/p>\n

****<\/p>\n

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case moth larvae
\ncling to rice leaves
\nat home I feed them to gliders<\/p>\n

[\/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]goshawk takes chicken
\nbearing featherweight burden
\nbarely gets airborne
\n[\/ezcol_1half_end]<\/p>\n

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long, lithe, alert
\nruddy otter jumps onto padi wall
\nslides into grass thicket<\/p>\n

[\/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] learning to be dog
\nfat-as-butter-puppy squeals:
\nadmits submission
\n[\/ezcol_1half_end]<\/p>\n

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Flightpath: Thailand<\/span><\/b><\/em> is supported by the Commonwealth through the Australia-Thailand Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<\/a>***<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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