A poetic reading of Tyran Sedy's photographs by Lloyd Godman

 

Tyran Sedy

instinctive footsteps

Hush, breath of instinctive footsteps
tread through forests of  wonder
dark fields of hidden colour
twisted luminous limbs of lost forgotten trees
that held a canopy of dreams high to the sun

innate seduction brings forth the inner animal
the hidden the forbidden the
the secluded inner child
lured to tooth and claw of the wild

returning is perilous
requires exertion, resolve
collapse in the damp humus
The under-story of life exhausted
where melodrama is reality

Dirt clings on wet exhausted skin
A strenuous poise
sensuous, sinuous, legs support
red garments of blood fire

move in the velvet darkness
pull life from the hands of death
He was nearly dead bound in red left to pass
She rescued the inner animal, the inner child
before maturity killed the last cell of fearless flight