Day: March 11, 2012

I did it anyway

On By NW FilbertIn Experimenctes, Journallings, Writing2 Comments

CREDO

“art is not a mode of faith, it’s a way of thinking. In fact, it’s better than thinking because it’s easier and more rooted in experience, only we don’t have another name for it, other than art…

the easy way out that’s hard to find”

-Ronald Sukenick-

 I think beliefs are mobile manifestos

I believe we invent experience as we go along

I am uncomfortable with creeds

I believe in thinking it through

I think we feel toward thought

I believe that art is utilitarian

I think that being is ambiguous and ambivalent

I believe in art as relationship

I think language functions

I believe making is interactive

I think we are made as we make

I believe in the nothing between

I think everything is medium

I believe to do is to be

I think we are

I am looking for words

What Begins

On By NW FilbertIn Experimenctes, Poetry, WritingLeave a comment

First Responder

Once in awhile,

perhaps always

(of this I’m unsure)

we answer;

and this answering is always a yes.

It may sound as a “no”

even feel that way too,

but “no” is no antonym,

only adjustment

 

A woman responds to a man

addressing a yessing already

to the asking

so even “no” is a “yes” to relation.

Negation may come

as it certainly does

in its various ways

but it cannot undo

or erase

the first token

(even if there are no children.

There are always children)

 

No, it merely describes,

perhaps even alters

the original gesture.

But yes is the endless beginning.