Still Things to Believe In

The Tate Museum's magazine, Tate Etc., features a poem each month inspired by a work in their collection. This month's poem is by Tishani Doshi and is inspired by Alberto Giacometti's Walking Woman (pictured above). Here's a taste:

Ode to the Walking Woman

after Alberto Giacometti

Sit –

you must be tired

of walking,

of losing yourself

this way:

a bronzed rib

of exhaustion

thinned out

against the dark.

Sit –

there are still things

to believe in;

like civilizations

and birthing

and love.

And there's nothing like good poetry (and good art) to make you believe that there's still things to believe in.