Vol. 5, No. 4 - Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Vol. 5, No. 4 - Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Vol. 5, No. 4 - Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
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IIln My Land The Sky Is Blue"<br />
(painting by Brian Sutherland)<br />
it is a blue<br />
painting<br />
<strong>of</strong>awoman<br />
with shining<br />
blonde hair<br />
glowing<br />
likealight<br />
-bulb<br />
it is a seemingly<br />
beautiful<br />
happy painting<br />
entitled<br />
"In My land The Sky Is Blue"<br />
it is<br />
a painting<br />
by<br />
ajealous<br />
brother<br />
to his<br />
beautiful<br />
happy<br />
sister<br />
(his sister<br />
<strong>of</strong> perpetually<br />
blue<br />
skies)<br />
done<br />
when he<br />
wasin<br />
a mental hospital<br />
her brother<br />
died<br />
in amental<br />
hospital;<br />
the sister<br />
lives<br />
inablue<br />
ablue<br />
face<br />
is carefully<br />
inserted<br />
between<br />
her shimmering<br />
blonde-white<br />
tresses<br />
house<br />
in a land<br />
<strong>of</strong> starving<br />
people<br />
(1/2 <strong>of</strong> them<br />
unemployed)<br />
& her hair<br />
isnow<br />
black<br />
(she is not<br />
so happy<br />
asthe brother<br />
thought<br />
& the artist<br />
didonemore<br />
picture<br />
before<br />
hediedone<br />
with a bust<br />
<strong>of</strong> himself<br />
with a del iberate<br />
crack<br />
in it<br />
inorder<br />
to show<br />
hewas<br />
broken ...<br />
yetthe blue<br />
painting<br />
still/oaks<br />
happy<br />
& beautifulit<br />
is a painting<br />
<strong>of</strong> a brother's<br />
love<br />
for his beautiful<br />
sister<br />
perhaps<br />
only the artist<br />
alone<br />
created<br />
the blue<br />
world<br />
he never could<br />
livein<br />
Gwen Hauser<br />
Phoenix Rising 33
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