The terror of an empty box when the adult aspect charms it with an emotion. The comfort of an 'empty' room when its inventories are ready collaborators.
It's animation that's the problem –– this space that fills so easily, into which, soft boy, we have brought you so many strangers.
7.30.10
He's delighted, and we want that.
He fails to describe the world in the canonical way, and we want that.
Such even prospects.
He fails to describe the world in the canonical way, and we want that.
Such even prospects.
7.29.10
Parenting, not to be confused with curatorship –– it teaches asymmetrically.
Like Bell's palsy, the face one places before the child loses its nerve at random, fails to manage, and –– self-limiting –– reacts to seizure with blind attention.
Like Bell's palsy, the face one places before the child loses its nerve at random, fails to manage, and –– self-limiting –– reacts to seizure with blind attention.
7.28.10
In a world of black and white dogs, dirty is indeed the funniest word.
And the kiddos know it!
And the kiddos know it!
Ashbery's Birthday
Because life is short
We must remember to keep asking it the same question
––"The New Spirit", Three Poems
We must remember to keep asking it the same question
––"The New Spirit", Three Poems
Escape Artists
––That poetry is vulnerable to invention
––That invention can proxy for egress
––That poetry can prepare an exception
They think that's what it is:
the black swan tool.
––That invention can proxy for egress
––That poetry can prepare an exception
They think that's what it is:
the black swan tool.
Domains & Intents: 4
- The limitations, or collective punishments, of invention.
- The foundlings of enterprise.
- Henry Vaughan's invocation of a "dirty intelligence."
- The idea of the vernacular; a vernacular of ideas.
- What I will choose to love, and what I will choose to know.
Untoward Arguments
Poetry can be made propositional, not to make
a better poetry, and not to marry novelty
to decency or progress, but to argue a life
that remainders nothing short of poetry, an act
of breaking in, and to our own callow house.
To argue a life made not mean by synopsis
but frank and more wild by a typical result.
a better poetry, and not to marry novelty
to decency or progress, but to argue a life
that remainders nothing short of poetry, an act
of breaking in, and to our own callow house.
To argue a life made not mean by synopsis
but frank and more wild by a typical result.
7.27.10
What's that?
––Deeh.
What's this thing?
––Deeh.
In the youngest vocabularies, the sound at the root is a response to the prompt.
Where does this token go when the agreed-upon words crowd it out?
––Deeh.
What's this thing?
––Deeh.
In the youngest vocabularies, the sound at the root is a response to the prompt.
Where does this token go when the agreed-upon words crowd it out?
Limitations
"Bees can remember human faces, but only if they are tricked into thinking that we are strange flowers."
––Harpers Findings, 7.20.10
––Harpers Findings, 7.20.10
Readings
"A content affirmation exercise."
Somewhere between irony and forbearance, Steven Farmer turns the perfect phrase to describe the persistent value arbitration within contemporary poetry.
Such valence for this literature that refuses to initialize its variables.
Somewhere between irony and forbearance, Steven Farmer turns the perfect phrase to describe the persistent value arbitration within contemporary poetry.
Such valence for this literature that refuses to initialize its variables.
7.25.10
To small life, the child is ambassadorial, with hiyas to a field mouse, as though to extend the sure courtesies one cheerfully renews in a bounded society.
On Revisionism: 3
As our case is not new
Let it ring false
To learn, in something like real time,
the exigencies of potential life.
Let it ring false
To learn, in something like real time,
the exigencies of potential life.
Epigram to Preface a Collection, after Stevens.
Back to the minimum patriarch, a garble among hash marks.
Alive as anything.
Alive as anything.
Observations in Books
"One sits and is carried into the remote unknown. How well-off I am, really!"
––R Walser, The Little Berliner
––R Walser, The Little Berliner
Peeping Mot p.1
No return from the war by doing puzzles. The puzzle is coming home.
I am confident
I am ashamed.
I am confident
I am ashamed.
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