Self-Portrait as Richard Long

 

  
A southwesterly walk from 30th and Madison to 23rd and Fifth Avenue thinking 
	      of data streams.  
A dogleg from 23rd and Fifth Avenue to 20th and Broadway thinking of  		
	      Heraclitus.  
A backtrack from 20th and Broadway to 23rd and Broadway thinking of love.  
A southeasterly walk from 23rd and Broadway to Union Square thinking of what 
	      it turns into.  A subway ride from Union Square to Montrose Avenue thinking of steel 
	      drummers, the export of tab-delimited numbers, heroin, property values, 
	      pattern language, Star Trek Voyager, sub-atomic particles, the banjo, 
	      traveling under water through a dark tunnel, love, what it turns into, love.  

 

Shannon Holman, New York, 2001