18 Dec 2007

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

10 Oct 2007

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

5 Jun 2007


Photo: Jane Marsh, Sydney, 1985

3 Jun 2007


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

28 May 2007


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

27 May 2007


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

26 May 2007


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

25 May 2007

       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

20 May 2007

           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

10 Dec 2006

Silver glance

flakes from

every leaf.
Swans swim

on flooded

fields.

3 Dec 2006

Today the downs

that meet the sky so gently

meet you in me.

19 Jul 2005

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

30 Jun 2005

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.

29 Jun 2005

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.

28 Jun 2005

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

16 Jun 2005

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

11 Jun 2005

Soft Incisions



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





10 Jun 2005

  A way of being
human
believe it. Then
the slightest

9 Jun 2005

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.