TransbliterationsVolume Two: Shakespeare

Part III. Recovering

I'd Stopped Thinking altogether of Love

Shakespeare's Sonnet LXIII → Transbliterated (089)

Shakespeare

Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’erworn;
When hours have drain’d his blood and fill’d his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell’d on to age’s steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he’s king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age’s cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life:
    His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
    And they shall live, and he in them still green.

Transbliteration

I'd stopped thinking altogether of love
	How it could be
	How it is Now


	Reaching
		Again and again
Time eroded my hand
	Until even the blood was drained
	Though my face was flush


	Straight and rugged
The tomorrows of youth
Could be seen
	Through the densest night

Yet all the beauty
	Of which Now is the king
Would disappear and dissolve
	Towards the horizon

Robbed of Spring's treasures
	How could I grow?


	While the knife was cruel
		That cut off a decade of memories
I'm now grafted to a stronger root
	Life flowing through a sweeter love
	A beautiful white
		Outlined in black

What can grow forever?
	A love
		Kept fresh
		Now

The poem, line by line

	Reaching
		Again and again
Time eroded my hand
Sculpture for: Reaching / Again and again / Time eroded my hand
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Reaching Again and again Time eroded my stylized hand, medium-shot of a statue on the ground
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
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	Until even the blood was drained
	Though my face was flush
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Until even the implied blood was drained Though my face was flush
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400 
	Through the densest night
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The tomorrows of implied youth Through the densest abstract night
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400 
Would disappear and dissolve
	Towards the horizon
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all the beauty Would disappear and dissolve Towards the horizon
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400 
Robbed of Spring's treasures
	How could I grow?
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Robbed of metaphorical Spring's treasures How could I grow?
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400 
	While the knife was cruel
		That cut off a decade of memories
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How could I grow While the knife was cruel That cut off a decade of memories
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400 
	Life flowing through a sweeter love
Sculpture for: Life flowing through a sweeter love
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Life flowing through a sweeter love
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Art period graffiti abstract art
Material Carrara marble gypsum
Adjectives anxious, vivid basic, serene, famous ambiguous figure, dynamic, alien, symbolic, déjà vu
Background Storm King Art Center wide green lawn
Time of day afternoon summer day
Adverbs applied forces, healed lives celebrate together, viewed from different angles, Off-balance tilts and precarious promenades showcasing exceptional core strength containing very few galaxies, brain's tendency, honestly, Contemporary technique, Suspension and fall
Shape sculpture garden sculpture garden
Image qualities national geographic, Lomography Color Negative 800, Kodak film, Synthspirited Vision, intracate clothing, glossy, smooth, Kodak Portra 400

Sculptures

From line 2: “Reaching Again and again Time eroded my stylized hand, medium-shot of a statue on the ground”
From line 3: “Until even the implied blood was drained Though my face was flush”
From line 5: “The tomorrows of implied youth Through the densest abstract night”
From line 7: “all the beauty Would disappear and dissolve Towards the horizon”
From line 8: “Robbed of metaphorical Spring's treasures How could I grow?”
From line 9: “How could I grow While the knife was cruel That cut off a decade of memories”
From line 11: “Life flowing through a sweeter love”