Open Editions: SOHO ~ Ice Cream

SOHO was originally written in collaboration with The Verse Verse and the estate of Allen Ginsberg ~ inspired by my trips to New York, the people I’ve met and adventures I’ve been on. Red bricks and terraces contrast a New York street from any other. The rain is always present, wether falling or in potential. But there is a soul to this city as if it were a poet to all the world.

The sun in Soho melts the ice creams of all that pass by,
It melts the smiles on all their faces and melts the ice in their coffee,
It melts the sound from all the instruments of a street choir roaring melodies of this city,
The sun’s dust gathers in piles,
All the clouds in the sky floated like puffs of ice at sea,
And the ice bergs at sea like mirrors reflected,
As you and I saw in eachother the earth like shattered glass that floats on the surface of this life,
Lillies in a pond of consciousness we float too as the sun shares its presence with us,
For what eclipses, what shines off the ice that’s glinting,
Some hope of a portal into paradise,
The garden where we reside,
Is that through the iris perceive,
The true flowers from the weeds,
Strawberries on the vine, give all your beauty unto me,
As we lay basking in the sun beneath,
Our fingers dripping wet with ice cream.
By Laurence Fuller 2024

SOHO Collection has been curated in;
The Verse Verse in collaboration with the Estate Of Allen Ginsberg,
Lume Studios and Stellar Gallery during NFT NYC,
Etyett for Crypt Gallery at the Dream Hotel in Manhattan,
Artcrush in Times Square & Ghent,
Nolcha Galleries during NFT NYC,
Neuronexus Exhibition,
Art Beat by Xcollabz in Lisbon,