drifts of ice

2011-10-27T19:34:00.003+02:00

(2) a pUrl" bl"l"Omi ng \\ithout nwasurl', a ,"nitahll" I)('(-oming-mad,
II hi{'h nevt'r rrsts. It moves in !,olh direct ions at onel'. It alwavs ('Jud.·s
thl" pn's{'nt, causing future Jnd past, mon: ami less, too much' ,mil not
l"nough to coincide in th(' Simultaneity of a re\x'Jlious matll"r.

2011-10-24T09:22:00.001+02:00

awareness
intensity
invention

enactment
attention
imagining 

following 
establish 
primarily 

narrative
civilized
developed

condition
exhausted
empowered

evidenced
motivated
activated

threshing
initially
grappling

happening
available
everybody

remembers
tolerates
illusions

estimated
equipment
plausible

processes
convinced
relations

gentleman
connexion
responded

potential
forbidden
instantly

different
expressed
political

questions
necessary
seemingly

something
certainly
inscribes

associate
lifetimes
interests

venturing
worldwide
evaluates

beautiful
exceeding
aforesaid

2011-03-04T12:01:00.002+02:00

2010-05-06T17:19:00.001+03:00

consolidate the formal
codify an ensemble
expose the frivolity
nurture a mind

2010-05-01T21:15:00.006+03:00

The manifold between carries a destiny more than abstract: a scenic resonance – fortunes of the other hand. A golden cage more or less fits the man: fabric of sensibility – surfaces fitful, vulnerable, all but faded. After the advent an inebriation that rapture pervades: resplendent.

2010-03-06T12:28:00.000+02:00

How strange:
a weird assortment
of hidden cornerstones.

2010-03-01T17:13:00.001+02:00

They have let go
have in truth
in newness
conceived of such a change.

Nothing but sparkles
and above all
no clouds remain.

Forgiveness
paves the way
makes no effort
in its single aim.

It is indeed enough.

2010-02-15T20:46:00.000+02:00

he was immediate
about his passion
to make repeated trips
not a week went by
tree of life dripping
in multicoloured wool
like a dazzling trophy
impassioned research
over three thousand
reflects the complexity
madness and naivety

2009-12-29T08:17:00.000+02:00

To teach – to transcend possibility with branching inward present. As it spreads the essential knowing a natural code of relationship deeply grounded in an enfolding pale deference. The radical theorem – an imperfect marvel ends in poetry.

2009-12-11T00:39:00.006+02:00

Truth stands radiant – the erotic dimension where nothing happens. Let all this madness play an important social role. There is nothing at the end, yet what is born is part of the renewal, torn between. Still shining in your quiet mind, I was so moved I began blurting, you are not a stranger. What inner urges prompted the belief that keeps me homeless? Your failing ego brimming over with provocative humour.

2009-11-18T13:37:00.000+02:00

influencing rains
saturated the

fields were
a rich bog

bent at the waist
thrust in small

strands to keep
close-knit village

women in extended
hard labour

gray skies
the wet soft

earth eager 
for the day

2009-10-28T18:38:00.001+02:00

point of origin
that would be
when and where

upon this page
the brush stroke
of all creation

its own existence
cradle of bones
off of itself

2009-10-28T18:23:00.001+02:00

We inhale
transplanting
our tongues

we move thru
glaciers, letting
pure waters

sweep
away
the mind.

2009-09-30T19:00:00.001+02:00

accidentally average
afterwards big
almost colossal
always fat
angrily giant
annually gigantic
anxiously great
awkwardly huge
badly immense
blindly large
boastfully little
boldly long
bravely mammoth
briefly massive
brightly miniature
busily petite
calmly puny
carefully short
carelessly small
cautiously tall
cheerfully tiny
clearly boiling
correctly breezy
courageously broken
crossly bumpy
cruelly chilly
daily cold
defiantly cool
deliberately creepy
doubtfully crooked
easily cuddly
elegantly curly
enormously damaged
enthusiastically damp
equally dirty
even dry
eventually dusty
exactly filthy
faithfully flaky
far fluffy
fast wet
fatally broad
fiercely chubby
fondly curved
foolishly deep
fortunately flat
frantically high
gently hollow
gladly low
gracefully narrow
greedily round
happily shallow
hastily skinny
honestly square
hourly steep
hungrily straight
innocently wide
inquisitively ancient
irritably brief
joyously early
justly fast
kindly late
lazily modern
less old
loosely old-fashioned
loudly quick
madly rapid
merrily short
monthly slow
more swift
mortally young
mysteriously abundant
nearly empty
neatly few
nervously heavy
never light
noisily many
not numerous
obediently cooling
obnoxiously deafening
often faint
only harsh
painfully high-pitched
perfectly hissing
politely hushed
poorly husky
powerfully loud
promptly melodic
punctually moaning
quickly mute
quietly noisy
rapidly purring
rarely quiet
really raspy
recklessly resonant
regularly screeching
reluctantly shrill
repeatedly silent
rightfully soft
roughly squealing
rudely thundering
sadly voiceless
safely whispering
seldom bitter
selfishly delicious
shakily juicy
sharply ripe
shrilly rotten
shyly salty
silenty sour
sleepily spicey
slowly stale
smoothly sticky
softly strong
solemnly sweet
sometimes tasteless
soon tasty
speedily thirsty
stealthily fluttering
sternly fuzzy
successfully greasy
suddenly grubby
suspiciously hard
swiftly hot
tenderly icy
tensely loose
thoughtfully melted
tightly plastic
tomorrow prickly
too rainy
truthfully rough
unexpectedly scattered
very shaggy
victoriously shakey
violently sharp
vivaciously shivering
warmly silky
weakly slimy
well smooth
wildly soft
yearly solid
yesterday steady

2009-09-28T21:26:00.000+02:00

               THE GREAT SPIRITUAL

                      He would
                wrap his mind
         in wine and sleep
                     asleep but
                  then
stand up and write it down.

2009-09-12T12:15:00.001+03:00

creative genius
painted cloth
fetal position

2009-02-10T03:50:00.001+02:00

delicate task
exceptional nature

first sight
human face

sinuous lines
tangible signs

elegant restraint
graphic freedom

numerous guises
subtly blended

prolific forms
natural means

inextricably linked
supreme act

2009-02-03T20:10:00.001+02:00

and what improbable echo
shaped this painful thinness
a figurine hiding his face in his hands

the people of the past found them
abandoned hidden in rock crevices
and bear witness to their advanced state

in this harsh and awe-inspiring landscape
they conceal at their heart the detritus of sacrificial rites
whose disturbing beauty supplicates for rain

gnarled figures with arms raised to heaven
each hewn with rough adze blows
a corresponding variety of uses – and perhaps of meanings

2008-02-06T12:27:00.001+02:00


shrinking decongestant
eliminating accumulated heat
removing exogenous affection
emptying one's mind of all distractions
relieving stuffiness of the chest
loosening flesh
floating collateral channels
running with tears
clearing mind without any evil desires
lucid dreaming
adding fuel
puncturing the points around the joint
deep inserting
moisturizing
serving out one's apprenticeship
instilling
observing physique
easing the mind
soothing the nerves
hypnotizing integrity
prolonged and intense contemplating
ascertaining the causes
experimenting
overstimulating
inserting the needle
moving the chi freely
turning round all over
throwing back (atavism)
counter-abdominal breathing
bringing down a fever
inducing a sense of cold
ventilating a person sensitive to nonphysical processes
dredging the meridian passage
dividing one into two
acquiring messages preternaturally
discerning objects not present to the eyes
diagnosing the distance
probing
bending the knees slowly until squatting
crooking one's arm
pulling oneself together
entering into a state of tranquility
enhancing the normal sensation
performing various manipulations
deep-breathing exercises
avoiding certain food
leading to attack the focus
gradual rooting
direct lifting
spellbinding
becoming a monk or nun
deviating
practising mobile exercises in a wrong way
preparing herbal medicine
bringing the dying back to life
posturing
handing down in a direct line
the yang principle is diminishing
acting as pivot
practising at midnight
the inter-generating relationship
stealing its maternal principle
horse-riding stance
making up a field of chi
radiating sensations of softness
inspecting of teeth
evaluating the facial expression
swallowing
flourishing rather than restraining
skeletonizing
branching and rooting
treating the principle
mutual promoting
manifesting a disturbance
bone-setting
referring to the edge
brightening the vision
maximal breathing capacity
housing the umbilicus
materializing
a newly emerging branch
taking in hand
crystallizing by persistent practising
voicing specific sounds
studying exchange of message 
injecting a solution

2007-12-18T16:29:00.001+02:00

YAROK

Three men in a room. One at the computer, preparing his latest book, on wilderness therapy, for publication. Another, reclining on a green sofa, speaks Russian on the telephone with his mother – discussing the merits of earthquake insurance. The third, sitting on another green sofa, arranged perpendicular to the first, dressed almost entirely in green, albeit three different shades, writes in a green notebook, a thick book of poetry open at his left side. The one speaking Russian, still on the telephone, sits up and stacks dirty but empty plates on the low coffee table, picking up olive stones. He finishes the conversation with his mother, a word of Hebrew creeping in "Tov," and takes his stack to the kitchen where he accidentally drops it a small distance, a word of English creeping in "Shit." The one at the computer uses the telephone now it is free. He speaks Hebrew. The word "Tov" is in evidence, as is the word "Epilepsia." He leans back in his chair as the one from the kitchen brings him a small handled glass filled with red tea – a sweetened Bedouin brew. He finishes his conversation, hangs up and taps his papers loudly in frustration. He has been at the computer for days. Deadlines. The third one, still sitting on the second green sofa, still writing, decides to stop and drink tea

yarok means green in Hebrew
tov means good

2007-10-10T23:14:00.001+02:00

Black Cat

sleek & slender
sidling through
slant of sun light

a silhouette tail hanging
eyes yellow green pits
seeking leaping
lithe god of grace

tracing the aesthetic nerve
the common curve

Leonardo da Vinci St, Tel Aviv

2007-06-05T07:10:00.000+03:00

Photo: Jane Marsh, Sydney, 1985

2007-06-03T18:46:00.001+03:00


      Tension is something
                     we
                      actively
                     bring
                    into our bodies
                 as a way
                      of
                      readying
against the next attack.

2007-05-28T10:32:00.000+03:00


                  bind together
                  without
                simultaneous rather
                and
         all of you
             torque, pull


            the wonderful potential
                consuming all
          it touches


           its ability
              makes peace
             by forcing
             their best function
rather than themselves


                  two energies
                torquing
                   magic
        active and human
                of life

2007-05-27T10:25:00.000+03:00


           being
          aware
   you can bring
 a meeting place
  the body – your only
           function
        functioning naturally,
         a place

2007-05-26T10:15:00.000+03:00


        to be inspired
         environment
           motivator—
       sparks that trigger
        self-concern
as it should
    inhabit.
        we begin to
           clog up and
          ignite
      the openness
         light and loose
          springing response
      an unconditioned
           coiled spring
          that
  (coiled metal)
this transformation
     must become
    creative deluge
       dancing

2007-05-25T12:45:00.000+03:00

       If you find 
         your knowledge 
        you have 
         undoubtedly closed 
  ensure that you 
             evaporate, 
          capabilities 
 made for the first time
     living like this 
           in your natural aspect 
              voiced and applied 
           only 
              limits 
    from whatever time 
        rest then 
            requires remembering 
          though it happened yesterday 
           half asleep

2007-05-20T13:37:00.001+03:00

           oh
         made for
           damsel and hopeless
      whispering
         unity made
        his world
           so fair! The
           bride, and then
         seek the lowly




      seeketh
        flower
            and
       the branches
            the branches
            walk
           so pensive
         spirits meet
     they make solemn vows




      singeth
        sadness
          death claims a
           bride,
        night
          now
           to the
            reading of the
            kind companion

2006-12-10T13:30:00.000+02:00

Silver glance

flakes from

every leaf.

2006-12-10T13:28:00.000+02:00

Swans swim

on flooded

fields.

2006-12-03T13:30:00.000+02:00

Today the downs

that meet the sky so gently

meet you in me.

2005-07-19T01:56:00.000+03:00

we are the back-door
try to reason into language

what I have can equally
be stone work within that

just here between metal or urban
such early stages not only

but simultaneously
a place of beginning

tipping between
a live place

2005-06-30T05:26:00.000+03:00

I once was able to peg this tent down
by merely reading you a paragraph
so before I get off the floor
you can join me there.

2005-06-29T21:19:00.000+03:00

Her dance
enabled her to
advance upon the
not quite solved.

And suddenly
we permit ourselves to ride
our previously earned knowledges
where the dead spots in all those small places.

Her hair disappears as a factor:
warriors should tie their hair out of the way.
Her neck is liberated
in the direction of the true function.

2005-06-28T13:45:00.000+03:00

any resemble
"systematic"

the air
in those things

indeed the noun
is felt to press home

the root
has this power

from what travels
one is home

an insistence
distinct

for Caroline Ross

2005-06-16T19:09:00.000+03:00

we are labyrinths
open spirals or cones
governed by
precision & touch

we also sharpen
with everything to
the sun itself
a question of primaries

an animal would
lay out the first
and dance complex
clues to the intent

the generative act
surprisingly close
an implicit or
hidden actuality

simply alive by
thigh bone and
their own doings
I write

2005-06-11T13:17:00.000+03:00

I was suddenly
required to be
like my soul:

the growth of
experience can
motion itself

the single
engaging
principle

our aloneness
who we are
that it is landscape

is it conceivable
& so be responsible

with what
each of us is
his or her job

and enable
that simplest
one

the widest places
where man began
do you begin

a common weed
of blue secretes
the study of this

precise answers
transformed by
dooryard plants

something
we could not have had

the fact
of scholarship
my point is otherwise

by
already
no further

red ochre
as they lived

turning to
abstractions
the pattern on the cow

I have planned
a fable

anything
one specific

wise men
I remember
they sat down

always
the most beautiful
since

the internal environment
of ourselves

we think
the hard
in

you might think
I had gone soft
instead

you are
ungraspable

the natural
so complex
but

in this
engaging
I ask you:

for a moment think
these muscles & legs

measured
who I am
if you like

his careful
personal garden
that confusion

not at all
and every

that each
prevented
the same

the climate
of our being

of those
like what
from your

leave us
the soul

any
proper
working

decisively
to lay before

2005-06-10T20:59:00.000+03:00

  A way of being
     human
believe it. Then
     the slightest

2005-06-09T19:58:00.000+03:00

Deeper than
permissible

but never
not possible.

Nothing at all
never said

never even
produced.

Another
on his mind.

Sweetheart,
let me hold

you alone
as if the world

will never be
anything else.

But to have
the words

the texture of
words

in his mind
the leaves, trees

the pure mountain
in his pure room.

He had written the
fog as it billowed

before everything
made it new

free from
dreams and

exalted surges.
I feel I am truly a

great man.
I have been asleep.

2005-06-07T12:32:00.000+03:00

Toward measuring
himself
some
possible
agency
with sympathetic
release:
the sympathies
fail

Taught by
the largeness
moving within himself
the truth
which is felt
has only
fixation by
internal means of
transcription.

for Sam Stout

2005-06-05T01:31:00.000+03:00

2005-06-04T10:45:00.000+03:00

I

An actionable side
gets through

the intensities
that darkness

something
beside the noise of itself.

II

For I want
and I will
primitives
for all
definitions of
yourself

III

And because
by descent
of father or god

the birth
of the eternal
roarings

this emergence or apotheosis
through the same
continuance:

IV

the antelope
you remember.

for Pris Campbell

2005-06-04T10:23:00.000+03:00

There is no
writing that
would be actual.

And we, as if unborn, stare at
the circumscribed.

While the real
table cover
is a yellow cloth that
is too narrow
the
leaves and roses
didn’t kill you.

The hair rises
above his
head.

They bear no relation to
laughing.

for Ron Silliman

2005-06-01T11:12:00.000+03:00

         this
       only thing as
        large as that.
       in favor with
          the consciousness

    in a style of
    electrical
            charge sucked
    to pare your nails, the

for Steve Lacy

2005-05-29T11:27:00.000+03:00

touch mulch house noise trunk
child leave trees tales lover
event delay water fresh norse
flint vocal shore snows begin
woven thule night shine often
nexus pygmy vulva offer grain
sleep crown wharf plums creek
flesh close black smile bumpy
bones broad ghost bless sable
dream daily birth talks berth
relax quiet crude cedar giant
depth years being round limit
organ white death pearl grief
heave clear place young wheel
image write world heart flake
inner exist ocean basis dizzy
space freed build means early
small earth river story demon
kalpa learn stone error three
occur yield today doing lives
sense aware smell dance quest
fresh think clean study rages
power feels dirty karma cares
being blend found outer panda
plant local anima allow canto
truth locus polis other lemon
hinge ictus woman holds liver
river probe angel going poise
still gland dwell semen cycle
green birds guard flood grass
thegn ochre trust khene words
horse every thorn otter olson
rocks brown hedge equal stark
fibre sound cheek drift mouth
chalk sooth until blood music
filed anger marsh faith storm
burst fruit whale bread prana
cloth light staff alone peace
berry swift imbue trunk hands
slept grows honey shape penis
naked grace woods whole bough
drift ducks beach frost scent

for Carl Andre

heartwork

2005-05-25T13:15:00.000+03:00

chaos as
utter
chaos, but
determined
concept
will remain
nothing
or a dominant
lack of will

this
something
(as though
drawing up a
sheet of chaos
we arrive at the
point between
grey
risk

assuredly white
beginning
and the whole
or life
we must bring
we use
offensive and defensive
energies
the task we cannot avoid

natural order white and black
are
one may
conversely
illumination
white
from
extreme
black

from light to dark in
passages from pole to pole
what
two poles rising from
the
we feel an increase
of
unparalleled
practical task

in weight
lighter
dark
numerical values
a clash of opposites
between
broad
repose
and ink

underneath:
excerpt
drawing
increase and
then, culmination
with accelerated
tempo
Growing
is not thinkable

without its
opposite
stands
from
its
what
does
if there is no
of course I know

that
good must always come first
that
in every individual
therefore
weight
of the
parts in such
a manner of speaking

paths to
itself
as
theory
it
will be a
close
room
it must make itself

in union with
matter
and living
freedom
nature’s
way
of building
may produce
wine with ink

but what
does not
shake us to
our
foundations
we
ourselves
the smallest part of us
must make itself known

means should
be
more than
profusion of
intelligence
impossible to write
the ink does not play
the primary
but makes possible

that is word-making
one
and
freely
in the beginning
going where
going
primal
kinetic energies

how
notes
for I was
where
the beginning is
what is essential
a synthethis of
figuration and
fireworks

growth growing in
cross section
and in
centrally
irradiated
growth it
grows as
it grows
kinetic energies

point that
sets
as
form
we obtain a
drawing
of
paper
as skeleton

progressive growth flow
inner
propagation of
threads of
construction
outward limiting
or spatial
discharge of tension from
interlocking of multi-dimensional growth

tension from within or
progression of
a dimension of motion
the tension spreads in
motion
inwardly
in the directions
left-right
questions must be asked

what
enters
and
where does
it enter?
below,
second
with regard to
back is also measured

earth
force
may
from
the
forward
direction is
free and the
picture this makes

This
sperm work
intangible
theory
undertaken
with great restraint
of means, makes
for
making

that
set in
plane tends to
recede
this brings us
with flat values
through it
expressed slight movement
and background

which
are
pictorial
spiral
movement
if we
also
upright
look each other in the face

meaning of this
is give
and
the centre
stresses
arrow as active agent
of the
third dimension in
speaking

meet him
as mirror image
made to fit
the picture look each
other in
above-below
behind-above
from
the same knowledge

what
we
shall
try
to be
we shall try
knowledge
tries
to speak

to say human
yields
it has come
or
still
is far away, but
as creation is
related to the
knowledge of the first action

more things
into being
and
their
motion
is concerned with the smile
all the seductions
never ceases
thank God

progression within
normal tensions of
man
crossed
out…analysis blushes
with
to its
inner being
in kind

according to his
view of
space
often seem very new
through
new
only
their combination is new
and of making them visible

appearance should not
be
amplified. Today
does not meet our
yesterday
he is more complex, richer and wider
a creature on the
earth and a creature within
knowledge of the energies that create

a sense of totality has
conception
plant
whether it be
the
object grows
beyond its
appearance
knowledge

knowledge that
is more
than its
number and kind
sections
draw inferences
about the
inner object
of which we have been speaking

I might add
lower
way
through
the
forms, while the upper
leads through the
realm of the dynamic
translated into work

his
dialogue
enables him to
rise
a metaphysical
view
of
free
awaken

exact research
surges
statics
drawing
points in space
we
yet intuition is still
everything
quickly

without intuition
it can be
logical
build bridges boldly
from one thing
now
for
the eighteenth century
to reckon with the unexpected

this
very
day
perhaps
it is already in a place
we
seldom think
from the standpoint of dogma
it might ask illogical and foolish questions

out with
totaliser!
and the
philosopher, a magician!
outside
we
should have
the secret
this shocking anomaly

that
structure
and
proof unnecessary.
Thus
showing
only in a
very
backward

that
use
that
according
to
which
it falls on
produces
and back

with
source
that
picture
cannot
(whether
known in
nature
have been taken

graphic
lures us
and with
reason.
It gives
with great
precision.
graphic
kind

fish-
scales
a line
growing
stronger
with
oil
underlying
likewise

everything
idle
disappointed
for
motion
whence it came:
back into
the parts
people liked to see

visible things
visible
isolated
from
the
power
to
part
like numbers

abstract things
end
a
formal cosmos
so much like the
now
across the
circulation
of the kidneys

earthly
simultaneous
and
through
the equipoise of
formal wisdom
not yet
art
we can still speak

we can say that
borne on
instinctual stimuli
conjures up
something more
Fellow man, arise!
a change of air
distracts you
to look forever forward

to new holidays
tired
sap.
Let yourself be
this life-giving ocean
whether
sufficient grounds
and whether
I should be thinking too

much of myself
and forgetting
that most of you
are much
at home
between laymen and artists
no
mere
unasked

and who
like you
as best he can
differs
by his own specific means and methods
will surely grant
enough
respect
he is the trunk of the tree

has
busied
this world of many
forms
let us assume,
flows
through him and
the tree
we all know that

what
goes on
above
different
functions
will lead
to
sharp
wholly, taken

that runs
interlocking
towards
free-formed
rhythmic progressions
Where
of planes,
enter in
(body of snake

in spite of this
we must
all
problems
it
we must
not
part
unknown

outside this
medium
and
perhaps I can make myself
interdimensional
when
you
crown
I think I may promise you

it is a mythical
state
an
unbroken
subtle
flow
of
a natural
kind

a metamorphosis occurs
something
that
verified
to
what
remains of
the spiritual
this kind of abstractness
both
middle
has still
other
we cannot fully
by measure or weight
reveal no
difference
Thus it may be a mistake

but what is
appropriate
what symbol best
expresses
this
which
relations
centre, the possibility of dividing
kinds of elements

this
core
critical
juncture.
Mastery of
power
so
strong that they can reach out
for lack or orientation

that
order
a
figure
object
way
combined
relation
looking over

his
will utter
"That’s
poor
The
new
stone
first
kind

that
some
that
from
time
will
passions
emerge
strike resonances

that
correspondingly
contrasting
expression
in the realm of
white
of
either
deep dark half,

weak from too much
or too little
twilight shades
around
the middle.
and what
possibilities
for
making use

we might now
consider
and
every
combination
will have its particular
expression
accordingly
he looks inside

finished forms that
nature
today
yesterday
a finished image of nature
dawns
on him
the process
gets stuck somewhere

what
would not like
space-time
call it brain
functions
in the womb
of
nature
key to all things

and saying this
may well
have
such journeying along
paths of
his own
form
production
if he looks on the present

by which
order
should save us
from
something rigid,
will guard us
creeping up to a
product
hoping to pick off

and to make off with it.
One
a
work
with a
view
to the
first
book

it is only natural that
we should
give priority to matters
formal beginning
prehistory
which drives him
from inside to
manifest his spirit
knowledge of nature

history
is of no use
way
together
the universe is useless
unless we are equipped with
the most beautiful soul
here
the isolated stroke

how form
comes into
ways to the
forms
to ideal
measure and weight
elements of a
rhythmic
rock

Shortly
after
or any
other
pointed
clearer will be
its mobility
freedom of movement
begins to look

child
discovers
that
random
chaotic
will
the chaos of the
first
walk

connected by rhythmic articulation
active
hand
More like
appointments
a walk
shown by the
straight
is taken as a norm.

a soothing
beginning
hand) it
remains
but
when
completed
the impression
will take it for a merry-go-round

without
rest
case
the circle
quintessence
We still see
but not
linear acts
in keeping

wholly
passive
not made
but suffered
What
How
into being?
the underlying tensions
follow it back to the gentle

action with
mesh
indicates
three
kinetic processes
We must
also
suppress the values of
letting us look in freely.

which stand
close
interpenetrate
or
intermesh
while
one
absorbs
weeks ago

among other things
suggesting
a
purpose.
This
with
accompanying
forms
suggested a folk-song

than
more
and
forms
to
converging, while
a dog
running
may speak of friendship

this
new
companion
briefly
the
two
point
all-pervasive
inner linking of the two

With
possibilities
combinations
forms
touching
which interpenetrate
in constructive
spiritual
tracks

something
very
about this
lines are
quite
somewhere
almost
alarming
if we stick to the essentials

natural progression that
length
and thickness
scramble
the lines
while preserving
So there
are
a map-maker

horizon
in spatial terms
as most
Europeans know
the
viewer
seen frontally
and the ground-plane
definitely marked-out

shifting
viewpoint
a step to the left
on this form
shifted
whereas
to the
right
now take a step

horizontal
line
distance
I travel
this
while
off in the
direction
take the place of ordinary

thus displacing
vertical
visual point
pictures
seem to
with
a single axis of
symmetry
(taken as a norm)

within
space
I have
here
built a second space
within
beyond
(we are in them)
below it looks to us

amorphous
connection
an
inner body
connecting
small town
spatio-plastic
internal volumes
imagine how it looks from where I am

how to unify and
combine
organic
processes.
We must
our way back
to unity.
Here
the links are important.

In any case this
introduces
organs
of the spirit.
There is no clash,
which demands that the essential be grasped
from
front and side
sketch

ideal horizon
inner
and
outer
transparency
we
only
appreciate the difficulties
if we keep in mind the value

without
forgetting
that
every such
analytical
whole.
Because I cannot, namely,
resign myself to analytic methods
looking down from above

horizontal
narrowness
gravity is
Crucial
position
when
the soles of the feet
purely
think

slight
cover
(unimportant)
Increased well-being.
positive
view
the ground-
increases
different kinds.

two things:
some
inward
chimera
is life. This
was
unfolding
the danger of monotony
The quickest path

Movements of this
kind are
change
their place
Surfaces in tension.
Shifting viewpoint.
Unification achieved
the innermost essence
skilfully

earth
power
carve out
sphere
of motion
where
This is how the plant
grows, how man
and beast walk or fly.

harmonisation
principle:
and
from
the cosmic
view
by comparison,
gravitation
kills motion

experiment with
less
and
very likely
movement
and here we must attach
to
the reality
a kinship between

pure dynamic action within
a limited
spiritual plane
resemble
one another
where statics yearns
for
dynamic freedom
of a tight-rope walker

his
pole
as "symbol
of forces"
he holds the force of gravity
(weight
the meaning of
vertical
Thus we shall speak of gravitational balance

shifts
of weight
based on
energies
of this kind
same laws
of
gravity
like scales

weigh
weights
situate
our scales
into a
new
position
better
stick to a single plane

counterweight
balance
such plays of
forces
like this
new
cross
quite perfect
they strike each other with their points

thrust
primitive
handling
from
symmetry
with
the image of
equilibrium
a kind of symbolic treatment

symmetry might
more to it
than
energy
box of elements
we reach
into the
compartment and add a little
dark red

interpreted in human terms:
I have
my right hand
for
hold onto
we
conceive
a centric
backbone

this
is a stone
barely
toppling over.
The energy
would make it
topple
Each stone clings as it were
(a little like towers)

with
effort
and
reduces
a vestige of balancing
when a man
fall off
his chair the vestige
becomes a block of stone

The more advanced example shows a
balanced
zigzag
relaxation
an epic tempo
when the
diagonal
is present
further back things lighten progressively

your hasty
question
of quantity
expresses
itself
if the weather is
foggy
merging at length
with the background

a matter of hill
and dale
mainly
inner space
exert
power
of
linear-active polyphonies
darkening

time and length
In our last lesson
dividual
articulation
the
lowest
movement
interwoven
exactly alike

remains faithful to
discern a timid
glance
hovering
as elastic
blows
Reciprocal
interaction
a kind of liberation

this
silent
dynamic
is more
a possibility
we arrived in place
both talent and intelligence
transpose it
and then to lurk in waiting

Thus
deny
structural
bolstering
of its ego
law
a naïve joy
relaxes
knowing

our small physical
size
limitation
should not deter
the
watery
cosmic space
as every swimmer
knows

its increased weight
make
gravity
upwards
master
water like a fish
or like the
bird
like a mountain

entrusts him-
self
as
the merging flow of
movement
with-
out
resistance
let them work against each other

earth’s attraction
for brief
critical moments
cuts through
atmosphere
with
soft
articulation
leads us to take

short
steps
that
occur
in the fluid-gaseous realm
a pool of water
(symbol:
the stairway)
You have to take care

we are criticising both
one
might say
the men are monks
cloisters
were
subordinated
start out by investigating
the naked

I shall go on studying anatomy
muscles
ligaments
a bundle of wire-like fibres
tendons
of which organs and organism are
interlocked
to the periphery
a special task

one has
touched
contains
energies
by consuming time
which despite the fundamental
appear in groups
the linguistic expression
I make friends

without an auxiliary
verb
organic bond
three
parts
In view
the undoubted difficulty
clearly
spokes of the little wheel

in which
complex
organs in light
and air
the
flower
opens
one or two tiny leaves
does not reckon on fatigue

distinguish two
an absolute
things that
work
together
growth
the involuntary
machine: the heart
it takes time

heartwork (coda)

2005-05-24T12:33:00.000+03:00


                      this
                  can be
                       a connective
                      process
                     water comes from the sky
    I guide my curve upwards
                  and complete the
                     circle in the clouds
            help it to keep its path


 to extend our limited human
                   cudgel prolongs
                       and
                    increases
                      striking
                     power
                     providing
                 the target and satisfying
                     a kind of arrow that we made out of a hairpin


                man is half
                 prisoner
                      half
                     borne on wings
                       through
                      awareness
                       of
                  the tragicomic
                   Unlike the divine creatures


               born with only
                     one
                       angel’s wing
              forever trying
                       to fly
                     I wished
                      to
                  capture the
                    to keep its path


                    without friction
                infinite
                spiritual
                  The tragedy of
                  simultaneous helplessness
                       Whither?
                      bondage
                       release
                    peak of movement


                      this
                  source of
                      man’s
                   contra-
                    diction
          his physical weakness
and his ideal ability to measure
                 the earth and the cosmos
                    he keeps breaking his arms and legs

for Agnes Martin

2005-05-23T23:24:00.000+03:00

A flame flickers
and is ready to die.

If I love you
then I love everything.

That thread of softness
that frees me from distraction.

Time to eat
strawberries & tofu.

The peace that’s felt
when company leaves.

This poem a gentle texture
of twining energies.

How the mood changes
yet remains the same.

Alone

2005-05-22T23:19:00.000+03:00

Writing by the warm glow
of a single candle - hand crafted in Bali -
a Christmas present from the kids

Using a fountain pen - cost price
from Paperchase in Covent Garden -
courtesy of Andrew

Sitting up in bed - a futon -
found - almost new - in a skip
by the vicarage in Kentish Town

Snug under a feather & down duvet
collected from the Argos in Gloucester
by Pip in her big red Saab

The comforting sound of rain on the
roof - redolent of some childhood time
the details of which I have forgotten

Although I now recall - or rather
feel - a holiday in Somerset -
perhaps my fondest memory

Beside the bed a stack of poetry - Zukofsky
(Deborah Birmingham 2002) - Herbert (myself
Manchester 1975) - Williams (Heron London 1992)

Leaning on a handsome new book -
A Quiet Life - by my friend
Pat Francis

Now the rain has stopped -
just the sound of my breathing
and these words in my head

Sitting & writing - entangled &
content - in & with - a life & world
of generosity & connectedness.

Heart

2005-05-21T23:14:00.000+03:00

A room
Without heat

The carpet damp
Underfoot

Where the rain
Has come in

The smell
Of mice

And mildew
In the air

A clarinet
In pieces

On the
Floor

Each moment
A moment of grace

How can the heart
Feel so warm

When the skin’s
So cold?

2005-05-20T12:56:00.000+03:00

A music so dense
as to be unfathomable.

A mist ascends, clears the air
and obliterates all landmarks.

Eyes at the back of the head relax
and connect like hypothalmic threads.

Stretching clears the head
and can be painful.

Pain is simply weakness
leaving the body.

Starting each day anew we acquire
clarity rather than momentum.

Variety’s the very spice of life
and a change is as good as a rest.

Thinking is peering at the world
through the bars of a prison.

Heart and mind together
like an open rose.

Life is sometimes painful and sometimes beautiful
but usually it’s both.

Subtracting self reveals what’s really there;
this is softness.

Smile and the world smiles with you
cry and you cry alone.

If what’s given truly connects
then magic happens.

No need to worry about winning or losing
just engage and let nature take her course.

Be suspicious,
nature may have got it wrong too.

If I have any force
it is in mobility.

All is movement and everywhere is the same movement
simply transformed.

Grab the tail of the dragon
and don’t let go.

The heat of passion
burns through fear.

Fear defines the present
passion defies the present.

No answers
only methods.

The internal is what is here
the external is what is there.

Here there and everywhere
all is the same.

Yielding – the art of engaging.
Yes it’s always time.

The only truth is heart to heart
and we fight for what we love not are.

Love is it’s own rescue, for we
are but it’s trembling Emblems.

What is this thing called love
but the one Spinozan substance.

A rolling stone gathers no moss
but a rolling snowball gets bigger & bigger.

All goes onward & outward
nothing collapses.

Open to let life surge in out & through
no time for pleasure pain truth or beauty.

It is undone business I speak of this morning
with the world stretching out from my feet.