A Vehicle of Reverie



Vehicle of Reverie
Photograph 2010

Charles Simic writes in Dime-Store Alchemy that In the Truth of Poetry, the title of one chapter in this small but precious book on the art of Joseph Cornell, "a toy is a trap for dreamers. The true toy is a poetic object."

"These are dreams that a child would know. Dreams in which objects are renamed and invested with imaginary lives. A pebble becomes a human being. Two sticks leaning against each other make a house. In that world one plays the game of being someone else."

". . .How to construct a vehicle of reverie,

an object that would enrich the imagination

of the viewer and keep him company forever."

This is what I think about while I am busily doing other things.

Outside it is snowing like crazy!

I think of shopping for toys

during this season

but. . .alas, not today.