for her
the research is puzzling
a cipher
the mind and body uncoupled
independent
she can think herself into
she desires the intimacy of
strangers excite
or unmoved she remands herself to
is she insulate or imperative?
certainly no stunned vessel
or starched handmaiden
she does not wait.
for her
the erosion of stones
the healing of wounds
the rise and ebb of arousal
is
is
as water running seaward
a primately cursive
indelible
animism
Monday, February 28, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
dream twins: sweater set and dolomite
sweater set and dolomite
1. sweater set
upper body, female
white, or pink
twinned cleavage...
easily broken, discarded, lost
buttons vitreous to pearly white
white
white to pink
"vast amounts... in the geologic record...now rare"
2. dolomite
bones
under ancient bristlecone
twinned rhombohedral cleavage
hands
augmenting horticulture
eyes
float glass
(imagine liquid lens)
bilious petroleum reservoirs
a mineral
found in coral atolls, saline lakes, lagoons and
kidneys
of a Dalmation
3. sweater set and dolomite
Conscious materials can be
pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed.
The phenomenon of dreaming twinned images,
the separation and reunification of isolate rational things
is not fully understood
But a certain fractious luminescence haunts the darkness
1. sweater set
upper body, female
white, or pink
twinned cleavage...
easily broken, discarded, lost
buttons vitreous to pearly white
white
white to pink
"vast amounts... in the geologic record...now rare"
2. dolomite
bones
under ancient bristlecone
twinned rhombohedral cleavage
easily broken, discarded, lost
bowels
purged through miningbowels
hands
augmenting horticulture
eyes
float glass
(imagine liquid lens)
bilious petroleum reservoirs
a mineral
found in coral atolls, saline lakes, lagoons and
kidneys
of a Dalmation
3. sweater set and dolomite
Conscious materials can be
pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed.
The phenomenon of dreaming twinned images,
the separation and reunification of isolate rational things
is not fully understood
But a certain fractious luminescence haunts the darkness
Friday, February 25, 2011
cajolement
We don't know if we can take it.
Of course we haven't had any.
What?
What did we do
that causes you to do that?
Is something up your sleeve?
Of course we haven't had any.
What?
What did we do
that causes you to do that?
Is something up your sleeve?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
working
stream bright
dark land
flood plain
5.000 year history purified by stones
clear memory?
clear water?
look at it
there in brain darkness
look at it
what rises lit
dark land
flood plain
5.000 year history purified by stones
clear memory?
clear water?
look at it
there in brain darkness
look at it
what rises lit
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
insomnia
I dream in hot flashes
struggling with
restlessness, wet sheets,
heavy, damp doubts.
What
rises to the surface
of the unconscious
and stares
accusing?
struggling with
restlessness, wet sheets,
heavy, damp doubts.
What
rises to the surface
of the unconscious
and stares
accusing?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
snow
white
sky planked
river sluggish
slough slough
crossed roads
slush
slow slow
box elder
pin cherry
old pear
wound unpruned
branch bough bole white
owl hollow
dead skin squirrel
brush pile vixen
warm
holes
holes
waiting
white
closed
close close
sky planked
river sluggish
slough slough
crossed roads
slush
slow slow
box elder
pin cherry
old pear
wound unpruned
branch bough bole white
owl hollow
dead skin squirrel
brush pile vixen
warm
holes
holes
waiting
white
closed
close close
painting
I am painting every day, with my hand, in my mind.
The numbers have led to words, sentences, text, not read,
but heard. Paintings form from the ear, aurally. It's odd
to watch this as I shift, scrub and smooth the
surface of things, these pictures.
Listening space and listening object exist simultaneously.Perhaps snowbound sight lifted sound out.
Perhaps it is this twinned geography of place between continents,
disembodied persons.
Here is where your voice and my voice reify, pleach.
Here is hear, the ear as an eye.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
painting
sky
earth
an example:
the modesty of leaves
physical(ity)
contemplation
that is
still (alive)
enervation (frisson)
still (space)
still (yet)
intracosmic
microference
an example:
dawn lake lit
in Copenhagen (interpreted)
lumina
liminal
condensed
but not miniature
contained
but not insular
examples:
dew
crocus nudge
poetry
why consider the private screen
under numbers
under text?
to occupy intimacy
on a scale relevant to survival
earth
an example:
the modesty of leaves
physical(ity)
contemplation
that is
still (alive)
enervation (frisson)
still (space)
still (yet)
intracosmic
microference
an example:
dawn lake lit
in Copenhagen (interpreted)
lumina
liminal
condensed
but not miniature
contained
but not insular
examples:
dew
crocus nudge
poetry
why consider the private screen
under numbers
under text?
to occupy intimacy
on a scale relevant to survival
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
painting
context
from image
unclear provenance
allows present
to be present
practical application
digits appear
symbolic selections of numbers
numbers you desire
numeral borealis
red green oxygenous pulsar
blue purple nitrous frisson
veil ululations
words
practical application
shift distance
m o v e h
o
r
i on earth
z
o
n
from image
unclear provenance
allows present
to be present
practical application
digits appear
symbolic selections of numbers
numbers you desire
numeral borealis
red green oxygenous pulsar
blue purple nitrous frisson
veil ululations
words
practical application
shift distance
m o v e h
o
r
i on earth
z
o
n
north by water
think of Icarus here
Great Lakes swallow boats whole
why not a boy?
La poésia hoy es piel y agua
Great Lakes swallow boats whole
why not a boy?
La poésia hoy es piel y agua
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
numeracy
relative emotional intelligence
the ability to select
understand
work with
13
prithivi mudra
two handed earth
thumb and ring finger touching
others extended
stable
a prime number
3
4th fibonacci
pushan mudra
light, nourishing clarity
right hand
thumb, index and middle fingertips press
as if holding a stem
others extended
left hand
thumb, middle and ring fingertips press
others extended
there are variations
52
the third untouchable
(2 5 52)
a year
pushpaputa mudra
"place your hands like empty bowls"
accept air
open
open
the ability to select
understand
work with
13
prithivi mudra
two handed earth
thumb and ring finger touching
others extended
stable
a prime number
3
4th fibonacci
pushan mudra
light, nourishing clarity
right hand
thumb, index and middle fingertips press
as if holding a stem
others extended
left hand
thumb, middle and ring fingertips press
others extended
there are variations
52
the third untouchable
(2 5 52)
a year
pushpaputa mudra
"place your hands like empty bowls"
accept air
open
open
local color
squirrel
bark- colored
an exact motion of brown
shift
sun
spotted
trunk crotch
animal crouch
bark- colored
an exact motion of brown
shift
sun
spotted
trunk crotch
animal crouch
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
open
the twentieth is an ordinal number
a position in space
a space occupied hard and soft
earth under snow, light direction
desire
desire for
Twentieth is more than a week and less than a month
between was and will
movement
movement towards
Twentieth is an edge, distance, an anniversary
to fall
to fall into, or out of
listening to Neruda read
I thought of Egypt, eighteen, nineteen days now
Twentieth
the twentieth papyral hieratic
un mes indigena
Today I write facing north
away from the heat of love, of revolution
Escribo
de la desesperación
de las estrellas
del viento
de la esperannza
within a position
a digit persona
of language, sand, and mountains
here is
the twentieth struggle
love, and love
multiplied
sung
sung into
a position in space
a space occupied hard and soft
earth under snow, light direction
desire
desire for
Twentieth is more than a week and less than a month
between was and will
movement
movement towards
Twentieth is an edge, distance, an anniversary
to fall
to fall into, or out of
listening to Neruda read
I thought of Egypt, eighteen, nineteen days now
Twentieth
the twentieth papyral hieratic
un mes indigena
Today I write facing north
away from the heat of love, of revolution
Escribo
de la desesperación
de las estrellas
del viento
de la esperannza
within a position
a digit persona
of language, sand, and mountains
here is
the twentieth struggle
love, and love
multiplied
sung
sung into
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
balance
we
frugal
poor
broke
busted
know how to live with less
money
more
time
how to sit
think
bake bread
cook dry beans
winter squash
we
delight in watching Mary Renault on youtube
reading Bachelard
mysteries about Chicago
shovel our own snow
take the bus
use clinics and foodshare
pay taxes and a mortgage
practice French
take naps
write letters
poems
stories
paint
wax extrovert
wane insular, solitary
prepare to move
back
and forth
we
teach english in another country
where we make pizzas for homesick expats
love mountains and small neighborhood temples
have health insurance and a pension plan
it's a difficult life to explain
to a low-income clinic receptionist
frugal
poor
broke
busted
know how to live with less
money
more
time
how to sit
think
bake bread
cook dry beans
winter squash
we
delight in watching Mary Renault on youtube
reading Bachelard
mysteries about Chicago
shovel our own snow
take the bus
use clinics and foodshare
pay taxes and a mortgage
practice French
take naps
write letters
poems
stories
paint
wax extrovert
wane insular, solitary
prepare to move
back
and forth
we
teach english in another country
where we make pizzas for homesick expats
love mountains and small neighborhood temples
have health insurance and a pension plan
it's a difficult life to explain
to a low-income clinic receptionist
Sunday, February 6, 2011
curious
I wonder what it's like
to be born on a date
that only exists
every 4 years
what crucible
what tempest
created
and collocation
in my language
a hundred million eyes
are still watching gladiators
is football
a civil lineage of
sacred rage
impulses to number name move
identify us
precede us
await us
to be born on a date
that only exists
every 4 years
what crucible
what tempest
created
the original collision of articles and nouns
the ancient rousing of prepositions
companionand collocation
in my language
a hundred million eyes
are still watching gladiators
is football
a civil lineage of
sacred rage
impulses to number name move
identify us
precede us
await us
sunday
light flurries
large breakfast of porridge and French jam
table littered with pills and books
it's difficult to rise and begin
after all
it's so, well,
comfortably expectant here.
large breakfast of porridge and French jam
table littered with pills and books
it's difficult to rise and begin
after all
it's so, well,
comfortably expectant here.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
hidden art
In Egypt
dunes cover Akhenaten's metropolis,
smashed to smithereens by
violent ancient conservatives,
certain they could erase all trace
of one sun god, of change.
It cost a lot of money to do that, destroy an idea.
Juju, an 8-year-old Saudi girl, would agree.
Over centuries the sands give up tantalizing bits of glory;
a woman's mouth beautifully carved, a battered stone glyph of Aten.
Who survived? Perhaps fleeing along trade routes to distant places, exiles
wrought history into vivid chant and ballad, the people's mnemonics, singing witnesses into existence.
You hear, you see, said the bandaged man in Tahrir, now you too
will remember.
dunes cover Akhenaten's metropolis,
smashed to smithereens by
violent ancient conservatives,
certain they could erase all trace
of one sun god, of change.
It cost a lot of money to do that, destroy an idea.
Juju, an 8-year-old Saudi girl, would agree.
Over centuries the sands give up tantalizing bits of glory;
a woman's mouth beautifully carved, a battered stone glyph of Aten.
Who survived? Perhaps fleeing along trade routes to distant places, exiles
wrought history into vivid chant and ballad, the people's mnemonics, singing witnesses into existence.
You hear, you see, said the bandaged man in Tahrir, now you too
will remember.
Friday, February 4, 2011
The wrong stuff
I had a dream
about peanut butter.
It was the only food in the house;
in cupboards, fridge,
even in the freezer frozen in ugly fecal lumps.
The horrid stuff was everywhere.
My clothes reeked of it,
a sugary barkish aroma.
How could Carter, scientist
and Carter, farmer, abide it?
Just as I thought I'd go mad
someone arrived, a shadowy figure
in peanut butter brown trousers, with a peanut brown bag of
staples - flour, butter, sugar, eggs, salt and milk.
Oh welcome bland things not
this awful ochre shade!
Thank you strange visitor, peanut guardian or avenger!
I woke up rejoicing, for I'd been gifted a solution,
a way to dig myself out of this peanut butter hell!
Exterminate the bastard glop quickly, efficiently, and perhaps, yes, with joy!
Dove, I said,
Let's bake cookies.
about peanut butter.
It was the only food in the house;
in cupboards, fridge,
even in the freezer frozen in ugly fecal lumps.
The horrid stuff was everywhere.
My clothes reeked of it,
a sugary barkish aroma.
How could Carter, scientist
and Carter, farmer, abide it?
Just as I thought I'd go mad
someone arrived, a shadowy figure
in peanut butter brown trousers, with a peanut brown bag of
staples - flour, butter, sugar, eggs, salt and milk.
Oh welcome bland things not
this awful ochre shade!
Thank you strange visitor, peanut guardian or avenger!
I woke up rejoicing, for I'd been gifted a solution,
a way to dig myself out of this peanut butter hell!
Exterminate the bastard glop quickly, efficiently, and perhaps, yes, with joy!
Dove, I said,
Let's bake cookies.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
grab
A German farm bequest supports
agrarian
artist
physicist
who?
the unknown doesn't impress name droppers
who want to play politics
with some one else's dough
we knead messages quickly
bake signs
deliver impressively sealed protests
oh
smells good
agrarian
artist
physicist
perhaps they have known us all along
agrarian
artist
physicist
who?
the unknown doesn't impress name droppers
who want to play politics
with some one else's dough
we knead messages quickly
bake signs
deliver impressively sealed protests
oh
smells good
agrarian
artist
physicist
perhaps they have known us all along
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
winter landscape
such
violet shadows
white
white
wind
cerulean hue
box elder brown
scratched fissured warmth
unexpected clarity!
violet shadows
white
white
wind
cerulean hue
box elder brown
scratched fissured warmth
unexpected clarity!
orange (night sky)
no stars
refraction of the mind
because
this scrimmed infection
of color
seems
indigenous
refraction of the mind
because
this scrimmed infection
of color
seems
indigenous
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