Archives for October 2005

language is not a matter of knowing the words

language is not a matter of knowingthe words to speak, but rather acomprehension of thoughts left unspokenfor no writ nor vocal manifestation could everreplace the origin let crawl frommind through splitting time and chancein given circumstance.– that which may never findanother route, if not through that subtle genius,Epiphany, may fall as leaf to be butnut [...]

a ghost-O'd outline waves its way

a ghost-O’d outline waves its waydown screen of window,silently backing to the shadow-deepend woods.

this life is but

as a tree   as a voiced cricket      as a splattering rain         as a twist-turbined fan            as a direction-uncompassed gnat               as a bulb let slown to sight                  this life is but a branching plenty                                      a branching plenty to the still’d & hungry leaves                                     a breaking call unrepeated in constant                                      a breaking call unrepeated in constance                                     a falling raised                                      a falling raised                                     a mutterance mumbling incoherently                                      a mutterance mumbling with incoherence                                     a changer of path                                      a changing of path                                     too fast to comprehend its speed and brevity                                      too unknown in speed to comprehend its brevity
originally designed with the first ‘a’ only, but both seemed so appropriate.perhaps better read with ‘as’ repeated twice, once with the first ‘a’ and then with the indented ‘a’.

the muse vs inspiration

a muse is someone/something that cannot disappoint,merely disinterest.emotion is not wasted on the muse, merely displaced for a bit.
Nature will never be delegated to status of “muse,” for Nature is a permanent-inspiration. the muse may wax and wane, but it is not the permanent moon, just a moth you notice in the light.
those who inspire: [...]

Sorry.

Apparently, someone I had let access my FTP decided to send massive amounts of e-mail to AOL users, with a link to a virus, ” Hallmark.scr “. I have removed said user’s access and the virus. I sincerely apologize to anyone who has received unsolicited e-mails from this individual and would request your [...]

pale in envy.

when the voice, or blood,                      or whatever                      is clogging throat,                       boils at room temp                       to eyes–                       the sticky ’lids                       hiding as                       ashamed curtains                       pulled to feet by                       someone–                       her–                       the one keeping me                       strung,                       well-tuned,                        but unfree to enjoy the air–how    repulsive           this sight of a sickened child           rotting in thought           from too long an exposure,                                      inward,                                  of her.thought,           what                 of                   our                       time?alone, in stare or conference held,         she is            she is            here– in front, beside, behind, around me–if that        time,               that                     solitairy fixation on                                              us                                           could                                                  extend,                                                            grab                                                                  us                                                                     and                                                                          stay,                                                                                 not run, not walk, not                                                                                                          stu
mble                                                                                                          from                                                                                                           as so                                                                                                           prone                                                                                                          we let it be–perhaps,          just                by chance                         by longing                                 we                                    could bring to                                                   us an envy drawn                                                                  from other,                                                                         an                                                                            outside onlooker–                                                                                        me.

from specks in grass

groans.that is all they are,side-stepping in hurried wave from one spectrum to the nexton those damned, barren wastelands of rock.what scroaming beasts, these skippers in roar of rush;what beckons them to pass as though nothing, they, were to stop?can they, these slow’n’ slicers of the air, not see what is here,idle and unafraid to be [...]