Status Updates From Derek Jarman’s Garden: 30th...

'Here at the sea's edge
I have planted my dragon-toothed garden
to defend the porch,
steadfast warriors
against those who protest their impropriety
even to the end of the world.
A fathomless lethargy has swallowed me,
great waves of doubt broken me,
all my thoughts washed away.
The storms have blown salt tears,
burning my garden,
Gethsemane and Eden.'

'I can look at one plant for an hour, this brings me great peace. I stand motionless and stare. But mostly I'm bustling about.'

just kind of beautiful. a memorial, an art, mostly descriptions of a salt-scoured garden. Derek Jarman is a famous gay artist who died from AIDS complications - this documents this only in passing, with occasional amusing or snarky excerpts from his diary, but by and large it is about the fisherman's cottage he lived in and the garden he put together.