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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Choose Your Own Adventure

Neces­sity / Tran­quil­ity NECESSITY / TRANQUILITY * To those whom the gods would undo: they told the truth Was “gnarled but glow­ing like embers embed­ded in the ground” How unseen, the old view, how crude and inde­scrib­able The vast bay win­dow cost­ing NASA an arm and a leg To see what they could see. Up north […]

Unio Mystica (a reading from The Book of Color)

That you would balance—or else can­cel me: was the ini­tial dream, the cog­ni­tive hand I was dealt. From birth And for­ward, the future of our myth took to melting-pot vil­lages, where word is spread and you never need lift A weapon. Or so I was told. To tear a score in half and save the […]

Tonic

I. You will also, on occa­sion– leave off where you first began. Like a watch’s weaker hand, we illus­trate uncer­tainty… II. Whether storm­ing, or escap­ing, any home we know not how to address: a vacant museum, the cusp of an hour­glass III. An unspo­ken nat­ural law: Only in cen­sored footage do we note silence, do […]