" Sloom " : responding to Möbius' 2020 album
[ Written text in response to Möbius’ music album “Sloom” (2020) ] - Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) | July 2022
“ Meanwhile the mind , from pleasure less ,
Withdraws into its happiness ;
The mind , that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find ,
Yet it creates , transcending these ,
Far other worlds , and other seas ;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade . ”
- excerpt from Andrew Marvell’s “ The Garden ” ( 1681 )
Withdraws into its happiness ;
The mind , that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find ,
Yet it creates , transcending these ,
Far other worlds , and other seas ;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade . ”
- excerpt from Andrew Marvell’s “ The Garden ” ( 1681 )