Photos from recent mountain jaunt
Day: August 2, 2012
Corrosion: Friday Fictioneers August 3
Home from vacating for a couple days. Free-write 100 words prompted by photo as follows (thanks to Friday Fictioneers / Madison Woods instigations/inspirations. Please join)
The trouble is corrosive. Is rank. I do not say what you think I say. I do not say what you say I say. I hear you wrong. Rot. You love taking pictures of ruins. I love the effects of rust. On iron. On rock. The meal of erosion is slow. Don’t yell. Things erase when we turn our heads. Eyes such enormous editors. My ears confuse wind with anger. What you think is running water is something else. Is sobbing. Are tears. Words are constructed of contexts. Are hints and withers. What accrues is corrosive. Is gentle. Is fierce.
N Filbert 2012
Collecting Fragments : The Engineer of Himself
Posting an ongoing project, a long(ish) poem(-tic) reflexive effort to at least hear myself if not understand.
The Engineer of Himself
The Engineer of Himself: A Poem
“Thinking is willing you are wild
to the weave not to material itself”
Susan Howe
“a new music of verse stretching out into the future…”
William Carlos Williams on Louis Zukofsky
I.
I have tried to tell this story time and time again.
I’ve set out to tell this story.
This one story. This one, apparently, mine.
This story takes all of my life, as do all of the stories that go deep in the mines.
Mole’s holes without boundaries – forward and back equal speed – ever the hunting, never the full.
We develop our routes in this way.
Creating patterns.
We forget so many channels and tunnels and homes.
Will I ever find the subject
When asked what I am writing? Continue reading “Collecting Fragments : The Engineer of Himself”
Polysemic Stupor 