Where Thirsting Longing Eyes Watch the Slow Door, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005Come to me in the Silence of the Night, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005As Sunlight on a Stream Come Back in Tears, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005O memory, hope and love of finished years, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005Come to me in Dreams That I May Live, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005That Opening, Letting In, Lets Out No More, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 2005Come in the Speaking Silence of a Dream, Conte, graphite and wax on paper on board, 12” x 12”, 200
Echo by Christina Rossetti
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope and love of finished years.
O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death;
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.