Exploding momentous days into each other with
tremendous love that washes the body clean of perfection, the white heat on a green river for the in-
exhaustible rosy thing with the rare taste of the immense everyday furled in the iris, somehow it will
all fit, and what doesn’t you can bring a-
long too if you’d like, as the ink that spills thickest before it runs dry,
as the turbulent winds that can break off the fragile branches of a stellar crystal as it falls, a blindness painting in the eyes of a god
even dogs and cats can read, the hardest
thing in the world to write well. Imagine
a small hill behind our hearts on which “Gift” always stands in indiscreet proximity
to the newspaper that appears in the morning with
names in
it, a bird skimming across a window,
the Ventriloquist, the other either mir-
rors, a thousand and twenty-two stars and fear and lust like blurry fine print moving together like, like “I’ll forget what you said, that’s the beauty of it” (breathe through your feet!), “my head popped, and a little cloud of ectoplasmic dust blew out.”
[Note: Sources: Autopoietic recursion (“Autopoiesis” XXII-XXVI) and bits from books I bought in Victoria BC towards cruise’s end. And a few other things. George Bowering, “I do this all the time” (from “Imaginary poems for AMB”) in Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996-2006; Nicole Brossard, “Blue Float of Days”, “Apparition of Objects” (trs. Robert Majzels and Erín Moure), in Notebook of Roses and Civilization; Christian Bök, “Kalokagathia”, in Crystallography; Jen Currin, “Walking the Ox”, in Hagiography; Daphne Marlatt, “Late in the Day”, in The Given; Tom Beckett, “What Speaks?”, in This Poem / What Speaks? / A Day (not purchased in Canada); Lisa Robertson, “True Speech”, in The Men; Tim Davis, Personals, in Nineteen Lines (not purchased etc); David Bromige and Richard Denner, “Canto 30”, in Spade (not, etc etc, but Bromige at least is Canadian); Robert Bringhurst (quoting Nyogen Senzaki) in “Breathe through the Feet: An Autobiographical Fragment” in Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music (Bringhurst too is Canadian …)]
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