Ella Bugby

dry petals of dead flowers have secret cures in them – anything under the sun, once touched by life /sun/ is imbued with power over death. (Jonas Mekas) Jonas Mekas was born in Semeniškiuose, Lithuania, in 1922. His film ‘As I Was Moving Forward Occasionally I Saw Glimpses of Beauty’ (2000) rolls for four hours and forty-eight minutes. Serving as a diary film, this is a montage of over thirty years of personal home movie footage.

Folded in like a dark thought For which the language is lost, Tuscan cypresses, Is there a great secret? Are our words no good? The undeliverable secret, Dead with a dead race and a dead speech, and yet Darkly monumental in you, Etruscan cypresses. (D. H. Lawrence, extract from ‘Cypresses’, 1920-23) In April 1927, three years before his death in 1930, D. H.