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MARCO NEREO ROTELLI
MONDAY, JUNE 24 The FIELD MUSUEM OF NATURAL HISTORY will be transformed by artist, Marco Nereo Rotelli, into a page of luminous poetry, becoming the projection screen inspired by DANTE ALIGHIERI'S DIVINE COMEDY. The poems will touch upon the poet's vision of INFERNO & PARADISO. CURATED BY ARICA HILTON FEATURED POETS: ANA CASTILLO, OSAMA ESBER, REGINALD GIBBONS, ARICA HILTON PARNESHIA JONES, ELISE PASCHEN |
I HEARD AN OAK TREE
And it was in a garden I heard that sound, A deep groan, like a bass note searching for the root. I heard a collision, like hands pushing aside dirt, clearing a path for light to pour into the center of the earth. I heard a chord echoing rumours of sunsets kissing a canopy of trees And strains of rain streaming life into your limbs. I heard the Knowing that we belong to Sameness To earth, to sun, to stars, to mountains, oceans, trees…. Elements forming you, forming me. With the window open (the way you like to sleep) I heard an oak tree lamenting in the breeze, “I was here before you, rooted, like you, reaching, like you.” © ARICA HILTON 
Charles Deering Library, Northwestern University
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