For Once, Then, Something

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For Once, Then, Something is where I share little bits about art and design including ceramics, painting, music, sculpture, weird things, drawing, architecture, furniture, fashion, jewelry, colors, graphic design, nature art.

This is my short-form blog, not intended to supplant Beyond the Picture, which is my space for longer musings about art, reflection and learning. 

—Leili Towfigh

For Once, Then, Something

Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
My myself in the summer heaven, godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths-and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.

—Robert Frost