Happy New Year from LMCC!

 

We have an opportunity to set sail towards a new future—what society would you build and how do we get there? Poet and LMCC Alumni Asiya Wadud led a workshop where participants created a collective poem responding to Blessing of the Boats as part of The Take Care Series in 2021.

As we look forward to the year ahead, LMCC thanks those who have contributed their visions to Muna Malik's Blessing of the Boats at Battery Park City and The Arts Center at Governors Island. We invite you to share your hopes and intentions for our shared future in 2022!

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GREEN COBALT SPACES TO SINK EMERGE

we will walk into the water together
learning, leaning nightly conversations then
a conversion
or seeing each other as

 

two people forming one shape that is twice the

height— wrested from us

 

eyes and breath and still the moon
the want the lack and still the moon
or
any
gathered
people still searching

 

a wish to want to go— in time
green cobalt spaces to sink emerge
think

 

leisure of cards before dinner, resplendent time

 

we will walk into the water together, eyes bearing the
weight; the boat is a conversion into the
bottom of granite language

 

the wind becomes a fixed feature—
sail and unsailable
wherever the wind goes it goes

 

fearless or unconditional or life or granite
boats or opportune

 

the water breathes us in breathes us out
breathes language stone pebble weighted conversions

 

two people forming one shape that is twice the given height