Do you know
what’s inside the word peace?
Beware: one cup
is fleshed with ants; six knobs, four in heaven, make ten.
The first prayer
ever recorded said ‘let me see your beauty’.
Every blink
elicits a new bomb.
The grin of
sleep is in the wind.
You put your
hand on Hegel’s grave.
Ceci n’est pas
une metaphor.
(pk’ pk’ pk’
pk’).
She throws out
the dishwater that is still hot.
She throws out
the dishwater that is still hot enough to use.
She uses cold
instead.
She washes the
dishes in cold water.
Sun crutch
parallel.
Eric Dolphy in
Europe Volume 2.
Regulation
Cascade.
Kabakov’s hero
spins in the weightless not-place of Malevich’s black square.
Are you
listening now?
Are you
listening while you are still hearing?
Are you hearing
while you listen?
Do you remember
the last sound you heard before this question?
... of because
in place demographic mint fine personal tell learn up
true of trauma
how like you, this ever now frequent at the door
where cries
arise and are fed through. Led outward for neural
fancy of fine
allure. Spread forward …
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
hh h h h h.
ni.
sssu.
This piece is
performed by several performers.
Each performer
takes position around the puddle.
“Without pride.”
“With amazement.”
“Even whiter if
possible.” “Light as an egg.”
Its red stomach,
filled with haze & glow / the shape of it
pointed toward Heaven: and all its globs.
Skin-tight and
rubber-deep.
This thing being
the blurred substance of.
Jelly madness in
sandpaper socks.
Put your hair into the dirt.
Go into the dark meat of a crocodile.
Sunset on Chrise
Planitia. Lent et grave.
[Note: Sources: Kenneth Sherwood, “University of Texas of the Perman Basin, Odessa, April 11, 2002: A Transcription/ ‘Cardinal Formants: Emplacement, Tangence, Witness, Rapt’”, Cecilia Vicuña, “Art in General, New York City, 1999”, Rodrigo Toscano, “Terriloquis Victus Dictis :: Species Patefactas Verbis”, in Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (ed. and tr. Rose Alcalá); Mathias Svalina, “Above the Fold”, in The Explosions; Bill Berkson, Merrill Gilfillan, as quoted in Peter Gizzi, Ode: Salute to the New York School; JBR, but see Benjamin Noys, photo of visit to Hegel’s grave, with Nina Power, FB post, 31 Dec 012; NF Huth, “WHEN IF AND”, as quoted in Rob McLennan, “Ongoing notes: late late December, 2012”, at rob mclennan’s blog, 31 Dec 012; Nat Raha, “(after Ossa)”, in Octet; Petrarch, “quando del proprio sito si remove” (tr. Peter Hughes), and Peter Hughes, in Hughes’ Regulation Cascade; Simon Perril, Newton’s Splinter; Pauline Oliveros, “Ear Piece”, in Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation (eds. John Lely and James Saunders); JH Prynne, “These Nothing Like”, in Sub Songs; John M Bennett, “The Highway Mirror”, at John M Bennett Poetry La Petite Zine; Kate Schapira, “Fourth Rain Dance for Campbellsville, KY”, in Weather Eye Open: Rain Dances from the Make It Rain Project; William Rowe, “Trafalgar Square Installation (No Shadows)”, in The Earth Has Been Destroyed; Michael Leong, “In Memory of Jayne Cortez (1936-2012)”, at Big Other, 31 Dec 012; Alexander Trevi, “Sunset on Chrise Planitia”, at Pruned, 31 Dec 012 (“a photograph of a Martian sunset … taken by the Viking 1 Lander on August 20, 1976, from its Chryse Planitia landing site”); Erik Satie, Gymnopédies, 3. Lent et grave]
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