I continually conclude that these two are up to something unique and astounding in American letters:
and….
i advise you fervently…be aware
I continually conclude that these two are up to something unique and astounding in American letters:
and….
i advise you fervently…be aware
“meant to detect just how slushed our insides were from too much speech, how blighted we’d become from the language toxin…
The know-it-alls are always the last to know. Β Everyone’s a diagnostician, and everyone’s wrong…”
-Ben Marcus-
“As is usual with me I would not go on with the rest of the story and come back to the difficult sentence later. Β With others it may be different – but when I am that far in a work the story must exist in each word or I cannot go on…”
-Louis Zukofsky-
-Lukas Felzmann-
I know….there’s a LOT of envy fuming out of you readers eyes!
(use your local library!)
Lifewordthread
βLife evolves in a thread of knots that get more and more tangled.
The narrative segments are intentionally dislocated and rearranged,
so the knots become the characters, as it were.β
-Viktor Shklovsky-
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β The impression like a manual typewriterβs arm β thunk! β left in either hemisphereβ¦ (they say)
begins knotting and tangling
as additional β thwap! β embossings are left.
βObsessed, bewildered
By the shipwreck
Of the singular
We have chosen the meaning
Of being numerousβ
-George Oppen-
The following story.
Not that the answers were handled judiciously (judgmentally?) or even weighed or considered.
No answers given to evaluate or directβ¦
The question(s) already condemned.
Thwak!
βShouldnβt be ββΒ βToo young β β βCanβt handle β β
βSTOP ASKING!!β
-(Pastor. Parent. Teacher. Friend.)-
But not books, not texts, not wordsβ¦
β¦these welcomed themβ¦
β¦welcomed meβ¦
Words seem to love being dislocated and rearranged and then marked into question.
In fact, for the reader, each word of a sentence or phrase, exposed on a page, seems to wonder itself!
As if language were a query.Β Inquiry.
Something to begin with.
The following story.
Aged 12.
βYour reasoningβs wrongβ (some voice, any voice, whap!, it stuck)
Awry.Β Twisted.Β Disfigured.Β Maimed.
βThatβs not the right questionβ¦ought not be questioned at allβ¦!β
βThus saith the Lord (a.k.a. the βWordβ)
(to which I added my mark β β?β :
– is it the Word?Β What Word? and Whose? let alone How?
and ever the too many βWhys?β
(those have quieted now)
But I devoted myself to fashioning questions,
so that even descriptions or
statements of factβ¦question themselves
as if essential, inherent to this medium,
of its nature
Smack! β
?
new ekphrastic attempt with Holly Suzanne at Combinatory Art in Motion:
my spouse/partner etc. posted this this morning and I find it instigative – love to see/hear what comes of it for the rest of you!
http://ekphrastixarts.com/2012/05/10/ekphrastic-opportunities/

Should you have the time…and it requires a bit…I would love to hear responses to the following essay by E.M. Cioran from all you interesting minds I observe! Β Thanks –
-E.M. Cioran-
New verbal/visual work from our studio at home!
Unknown and Unnamed experiences: the swoon and the swarm
Β
I hadnβt remembered it like this (trying not to remember).Β That all of it got into you.Β That all of it came out!
Immersion.Β Enthrallment.Β Ecstasy β words that come, to mind.
That if en-joined, then out-sourced.Β Becoming indecipherable β like epistemology.
A momentβs rush, for example.Β I encounter β which encountering looks like insertion and abstraction on me.Β I move toward, feel it out, then back off and observe.Β Active, passive; a swing, a rocking boat.
This is different.Β Inundation, a flood.Β Unable to say whatβs mine, whatβs not; whoβs me, whoβs you.Β Unable, frankly, to say, at all.Β Only be.
Motion, reception; injunction and release.
Think sky-diving: that decision to jump, trusting something, someone will hold together as form in all that air.Β Like diving the deep blue sea, compression surround, that some element will remain intact without ground or solidity.
It works that way.Β Give and take, see and saw, this uncanny to and fro of body, perceptions, breath.Β Eyes contact then fog to some self between.Β Fleshes β distinct and specific β now con-fused.Β Whoβs sweat?Β Whoβs secretions?Β Itβs sticky, yes, like that β a gluey bond.
Then the wave, the distended moment β incalculable clockwork β where all borders and boundaries seem lost, some extended and mutual sigh or moan within which the voice is other and the same without identity.
The swoon of it.Β The swarm.
Dizzying rush of blood as warmth or wind; eyes roll back, also in, but not to my darkness.Β As if limbless or prosthetically invented, my body grows β grows yours or ours or contracts to another covering, but inside-out.
As if leap or let go were no longer options, but instinct.
As if hot and cold β undifferentiated β some something that must define pleasure β
as in emptiness, fullness
the yin, the yang
a cellular entanglement
The swoon, the swarm
emerge
But what?Β Or whom?
And what occurs in the median?
Who were that?Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β What was those?
The swoon, the swirl, the swarm.
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β No one effecting.Β Effected.Β What does that indicate?
Nothing, essential to event β if nothing, than an absence utterly imbued.
A radiance, evocation,
like a sleeping brain on dreamsβ¦
with-you, the unknown gets no/w/here.
Whatever the constants, coefficients and variables, given the operator as convergence, the equation = whole,
where the w stands for we,
without which none β (βholeβ).
Affecting substanceβ¦no one gains currencyβ¦necessity (no 1, but at least 2)β¦ and then – ?
No one, unknown, unnamed, no/w/here as 0+O
where O stands for other
in this case, you
O requiring as much as I
inferring – ?
you canβt have 1 without anOther
but where anOther occurs must be at least 1 (other)
even if unknown, unnamed
in order to be lost and found in the joining
the immersion and enthrallment
the ecstasy

Welcome!
I venture to say this piece is unnamed and unfinished, but I tell you itβs alive and it dances!
I can touch it with my hands.Β The wax is smooth like flesh, the collage like scars or scabs β where the texture lies.
Up close β I am underwater on sand, watching the fluxing of weeds.Β Looking for retinal patterns.
At a distance it traces a woman, her dress kicking out, a-twirl and limning the lithe.
Iβm entranced!
Itβs Chinese scriptwork of wisdom and way, a beautiful nude languidly branding the air with her limbs β fertile signs and images prodding me β βmove!β
Move myself.
Activate.
Address.
What looks like dark ink stands out, but in reality swims under the surface β blotting, inscribing and guiding the paths.
Emotion and gesture alike: drawn swiftly and sourced far beneath, or pressed on and affixed from outside.Β Each leave their marks β stark and prominent, – resonant emblems of what lies beneath, what responds.
I pretend I am calm, blank canvas to world β but when it brushes or cuts, smothers or slaps, what is bold in me reveals.Β The fears, the wounds, the anger and dream.
My vision scatters in rage.Β Vehement dashing and strike.Β I can promise you this: the world will reveal me.
I have told you: you are with the unknown of the unnamed – a nothing answering to nothing β a cooperative become.
At the end I will be named, will have accumulated and inscribed them.Β Surface, object, ground: our object.
Enaction.
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