Ballistics (2011)
“—Michael Kimmelman It might have been the darkening sky that sent them running in all directions that afternoon as the air turned a pale yellow, but were they not used to standing out in the squares of our city in every kind of imaginable weather?
Maybe they were frightened by a headline on a newspaper that was blowing by or was it the children in their martial arts uniforms?
Did they finally learn about the humans they stood for as they pointed a sword at a cloud?
Did they know something we di...d not?
Whatever the cause, no one will forget the sight of all the white marble figures leaping from their pedestals and rushing away.
In the parks, the guitarists fell silent.
The vendor froze under his umbrella.
A dog tried to hide in his owner’s shadow.MoreLess
Maybe they were frightened by a headline on a newspaper that was blowing by or was it the children in their martial arts uniforms?
Did they finally learn about the humans they stood for as they pointed a sword at a cloud?
Did they know something we di...d not?
Whatever the cause, no one will forget the sight of all the white marble figures leaping from their pedestals and rushing away.
In the parks, the guitarists fell silent.
The vendor froze under his umbrella.
A dog tried to hide in his owner’s shadow.MoreLess
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