This week I want to include a poem that I read at the December Allied Arts reading. What a great excuse to post some cup photos to spruce up the page!
THE EQUATION OF THE PERCEPTION OF LIGHT
“Writing is a search for the meaning that writing itself violently expels“, Octavio Paz (The Monkey Grammarian, p 133)
“Eight times out of Ten”
Is five words
Is eight words
Is 11 words
And so on.
“And so on” is three words.
Words are the spring trap
That we load with meaning
End on end, the fractal melody
Of ourselves as we grasp for
The promise of our senses.
On and on
Throughout that Cardinal moment
As we emerge
From the shadows of meaning
And bend the patient
Aura of ourselves.
A mountain,
A river,
A branch of light
All ask the question of
Where we stand against the time
It takes to get there
With no reference.
Therefore,
The shadow of a mountain
Offers hope,
And the rendering
of the many forms of water
gives us comfort.
“We” is one word
out of context
but each of us is rain
as it slides to the sea.
More postings by the end of the week, hope it happens!
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